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,