Isaac Lies about His Wife Rebekah to the Philistines

26:6-11

6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar. 7 Then the men of the place asked about his wife, and he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “Lest the men of the place kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful of appearance.” 8 Then it happened, when the days had been long for him there, then Abimelech the king of the Philistines looked down from a window and saw that, behold, Isaac was laughing with Rebekah his wife. 9 So Abimelech called for Isaac and said, “Behold, she is really your wife! So how could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” And Isaac said to him, “Because I said, ‘I might die because of her.’ ” 10 Then Abimelech said, “What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!” 11 Then Abimelech ordered all the people by saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be killed!”