Genesis 26:11

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He who touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

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  • Ps 105:15 : 15 Saying, Do not touch my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
  • Prov 6:29 : 29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For thus says the LORD of hosts: After the glory has He sent me to the nations which plundered you: for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.
  • Gen 20:6 : 6 And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also kept you from sinning against me: therefore I did not let you touch her.

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    6And Isaac lived in Gerar:

    7And the men of the place asked him about his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, he said, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was beautiful to look upon.

    8And it happened, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was caressing Rebekah his wife.

    9And Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, certainly she is your wife: and how did you say, She is my sister? And Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die for her.

    10And 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 upon us.

  • Gen 20:2-11
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    2And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, She is my sister. And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.

    3But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man's wife.

    4But Abimelech had not come near her, and he said, Lord, will you slay also a righteous nation?

    5Did he not say to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself, said, He is my brother. In the integrity of my heart and innocence of my hands have I done this.

    6And God said to him in a dream, Yes, I know that you did this in the integrity of your heart; for I also kept you from sinning against me: therefore I did not let you touch her.

    7Now therefore restore the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for you, and you shall live: and if you do not restore her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all that belong to you.

    8Therefore Abimelech rose early in the morning, and called all his servants, and told all these things in their ears: and the men were very afraid.

    9Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, What have you done to us? and what wrong have I done to you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that should not be done.

    10And Abimelech said to Abraham, What did you see, that you have done this thing?

    11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will kill me for my wife's sake.

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    18For the LORD had closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.

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    22If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man that lay with the woman, and the woman; so you shall put away evil from Israel.

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    29So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her shall not be innocent.

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    25And Abraham reproved Abimelech because of a well of water which Abimelech's servants had violently taken away.

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    24Then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones so that they die; the young woman because she did not cry out, being in the city; and the man because he has humbled his neighbor's wife; so you shall put away the evil from among you.

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    22And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his army spoke to Abraham, saying, God is with you in all that you do.

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    53But a certain woman threw an upper millstone on Abimelech's head and crushed his skull.

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    12He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.

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    56Thus God repaid the wickedness of Abimelech, which he had done to his father, in killing his seventy brothers.