Verse 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.”

Referenced Verses

• Gen 12:13 : 13 So tell them you are my sister so that it may go well for me because of you and my life will be spared on account of you.”
• Gen 20:2 : 2 Abraham said about his wife Sarah,“She is my sister.” So Abimelech, king of Gerar, sent for Sarah and took her.
• Prov 29:25 : 25 The fear of people becomes a snare, but whoever trusts in the LORD will be set on high.
• Gen 24:16 : 16 Now the young woman was very beautiful. She was a virgin; no man had ever been physically intimate with her. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up.
• Gen 20:12-13 : 12 What’s more, she is indeed my sister, my father’s daughter, but not my mother’s daughter. She became my wife. 13 When God made me wander from my father’s house, I told her,‘This is what you can do to show your loyalty to me: Every place we go, say about me,“He is my brother.”’”
• Gen 20:5 : 5 Did Abraham not say to me,‘She is my sister’? And she herself said,‘He is my brother.’ I have done this with a clear conscience and with innocent hands!”
• Matt 10:28 : 28 Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
• Eph 5:25 : 25 Husbands, love your wives just as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her
• Col 3:9 : 9 Do not lie to one another since you have put off the old man with its practices