26:7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” 3 He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, 4 “The men of this place will kill me to get 5 Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”
1 tn Or “ruler.”
2 sn Will not the judge of the whole earth do what is right? For discussion of this text see J. L. Crenshaw, “Popular Questioning of the Justice of God in Ancient Israel,” ZAW 82 (1970): 380-95, and C. S. Rodd, “Shall Not the Judge of All the Earth Do What Is Just?” ExpTim 83 (1972): 137-39.
3 sn Rebekah, unlike Sarah, was not actually her husband’s sister.
4 tn Heb “lest.” The words “for he thought to himself” are supplied because the next clause is written with a first person pronoun, showing that Isaac was saying or thinking this.
5 tn Heb “kill me on account of.”