6So Isaac stayed in Gerar.


In Context

3 Stay in this land for a while, and I will be with you and will bless you. For to you and your descendants I will give all these lands and will confirm the oath I swore to your father Abraham.

4 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed,

5 because Abraham obeyed me and kept my requirements, my commands, my decrees and my laws."

6 So Isaac stayed in Gerar.

7 When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, "She is my sister," because he was afraid to say, "She is my wife." He thought, "The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful."

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

Genesis 26:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

26:6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

26:6And Isaac dwelled in Gerar:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

26:6So Isaac abode in Gerara.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

26:6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:6And Isaac dwelt at Gerar.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:6And Isaac dwelt in Gerar:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

26:6Isaac lived in Gerar.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

26:6And Isaac dwelleth in Gerar;