¹³ Please say you’re my sister so it will go well for me because of you, and my life will be spared on your account.’

Isaac’s Deception

⁷ When the men of the place asked about his wife, he said, ‘She is my sister,’^(A) for he was afraid to say ‘my wife’, thinking,^(B) ‘The men of the place will kill me on account of Rebekah, for she is a beautiful woman.’^(C)