Genesis 26:7

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” ¹  He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, ²  “The men of this place will kill me to get ³  Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”

Ge 12:13; Ge 20:2,5,12,13; Ge 24:16; Pr 29:25; Mt 10:28; Eph 5:25; Col 3:9

¹ sn Rebekah, unlike Sarah, was not actually her husband’s sister.

² 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.

³ tn Heb “kill me on account of.”