4 I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky, and I will give your descendants all this land. They will be a blessing to every nation on earth,
5 because Abraham did everything I told him to do.
6 Isaac moved to Gerar
7 with his beautiful wife Rebekah. He was afraid that someone might kill him to get her, and so he told everyone that Rebekah was his sister.
8 After Isaac had been there a long time, King Abimelech looked out of a window and saw Isaac hugging and kissing Rebekah.
9 Abimelech called him in and said, “Rebekah must be your wife! Why did you say she is your sister?”“Because I thought someone would kill me,” Isaac answered.
10 “Don't you know what you've done?” Abimelech exclaimed. “If someone had slept with her, you would have made our whole nation guilty!”