Genesis 26:7 meaning and explanation

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

Genesis 26:7, Berean Standard Bible

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Isaac has settled in Gerar, among the Philistines, because a famine drove him from his usual grazing land. When the local men ask about Rebekah, he says she is his sister.

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