¹³ Say you are my sister,^(A) so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you.”

⁷ When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,^(A)” 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.”