◄ Genesis 26:11 ►
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Good News Translation
Abimelech warned all the people: "Anyone who mistreats this man or his wife will be put to death."

New Revised Standard Version
So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever touches this man or his wife shall be put to death.”

Contemporary English Version
Then Abimelech warned his people that anyone who even touched Isaac or Rebekah would be put to death.

New American Bible
Abimelech then commanded all the people: “Anyone who maltreats this man or his wife shall be put to death.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.

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Genesis 20:6 And God said to him: And I know that thou didst it with a sincere heart: and therefore I withheld thee from sinning against me, and I suffered thee not to touch her.

Psalm 105:15 Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

Proverbs 6:29 The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:

Zechariah 2:8 For thus saith the Lord of hosts: After the glory he hath sent me to the nations that have robbed you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of my eye:

Context
Isaac Deceives Abimelech
…10And Abimelech said: Why hast thou deceived us? Some man of the people might have lain with thy wife, and thou hadst brought upon us a great sin. And he commanded all the people, saying: 11He that shall touch this man's wife, shall surely be put to death.
Cross References
Psalm 105:15
Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

Genesis 26:12
And Isaac sowed in that land, and he found that same year a hundredfold: and the Lord blessed him.

Genesis 26:10
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