Bible verse

Genesis 26:11

So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

Genesis 26:11 · BSB

Genesis 26:11 in context

The verses around it, from Genesis 26.

7 But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

8 When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

9 Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

10 “What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”

11 So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”

12 Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

13 and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

14 He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

15 So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

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Genesis 26:11 in other translations

KJV

And Abimelech charged all [his] people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

ASV

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

ERV

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

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