Generations Part 2 (Gen 26:7-12)

7 When the men of the place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” for he feared to say, “My wife,” thinking, “lest the men of the place should kill me because of Rebekah,” because she was attractive in appearance.

לְאִשְׁתּוֹ means about his wife, just as (20:13) “Say of me (לִי), ‘He is my brother.’ ”

Say you are my sister, that it may go well with me because of you, and that my life may be spared for your sake.” GEN 12:13

The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up. GEN 24:16

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. MAT 10:28

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, EPH 5:25

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Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices COL 3:9

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

One of the people—One of the people—viz., the king (cf. Targum).

And you would have brought guilt upon us—If he had lain with her already, you would have brought guilt upon us.

18 So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?

19 Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.” GEN 12:18-19

9 Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”

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10 And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What did you see, that you did this thing?” GEN 20:9-10

12 And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him,

In that land although it had not the sacred importance of the land of Israel proper—i.e., as the territory of the seven nations (Bereishit Rabbah 64:6).

In that land . . . in the same year—Why both of them? To tell you that that soil was hard and that year was a hard one.

In the same year although it was not a normal year, being a year of famine.

A hundredfold—For they had estimated how much it should have yielded and it yielded one hundred for every measure which they had estimated. Our Rabbis said that the estimate was made for the purpose of the tithe (Bereishit Rabbah 64:6).

Ketubot 112a:10

And this applies only to a year when the land of Israel is not blessed. However, with regard to a year when it was blessed, it is written: “And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold” (Gen 26:12). Isaac’s field produced one hundred times the normal yield, which according to the above calculations is five thousand kor, as stated in the baraita.

1 Now Abraham was old, well advanced in years. And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.

35 The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys. GEN 24:1, 35

3 Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.

29 that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. You are now the blessed of the Lord. GEN 26:3, 29

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