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11And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.

Genesis 26:11

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Matthew Henry

(vv. 6-11)

Isaac had now laid aside all thoughts of going to Egypt, and, in obedience to the heavenly vision, sets up his staff in Gerar, the country in which he was born (Gen. 26:6), yet there he enters into temptation, the same temptation that his good father had been once and again surprised and overcome by, namely, to deny his wife, and to give out that she was his sister. Observe, I. How he sinned, Gen....

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