6. So Isaac settled in Gerar.
7. When the men of the place asked questions about his wife, he answered, “She is my sister.” He was afraid that, if he called her his wife, the men of the place would kill him on account of Rebekah, since she was beautiful.
8. But when they had been there for a long time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looked out of a window and saw Isaac fondling his wife Rebekah.
9. He called for Isaac and said: “She must certainly be your wife! How could you have said, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “I thought I might lose my life on her account.”
10. “How could you have done this to us!” exclaimed Abimelech. “It would have taken very little for one of the people to lie with your wife, and so you would have brought guilt upon us!”
11. Abimelech then commanded all the people: “Anyone who maltreats this man or his wife shall be put to death.”
12. Isaac sowed a crop in that region and reaped a hundredfold the same year. Since the Lord blessed him,
13. he became richer and richer all the time, until he was very wealthy.
14. He acquired flocks and herds, and a great work force, and so the Philistines became envious of him.
15. The Philistines had stopped up and filled with dirt all the wells that his father’s servants had dug back in the days of his father Abraham.
16. So Abimelech said to Isaac, “Go away from us; you have become far too numerous for us.”
17. Isaac left there and camped in the Wadi Gerar where he stayed.