4. I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.
5. All this will come to pass because Abraham obeyed me and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.”
6. So Isaac settled in Gerar.
7. When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”
8. After Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines happened to look out a window and observed Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
9. So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”
10. Then Abimelech exclaimed, “What in the world have you done to us? One of the men might easily have had sexual relations with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!”
11. So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
12. When Isaac planted in that land, he reaped in the same year a hundred times what he had sown, because the Lord blessed him.
13. The man became wealthy. His influence continued to grow until he became very prominent.
14. He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.