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Please say that you are my sister, so things will go well for me for your sake. That way, you'll be saving my life."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of Deceitdoubt, results ofNot DyingMisrepresentationsisterhood

Why did you say, "She is my sister,' so that I took her as a wife for myself? Now, here is your wife! Take her and get out!"

Verse ConceptsMisrepresentationReinstating PeopleTransferring WivesRelationship Troubles

because Abraham kept saying about his wife Sarah, "She is my sister," King Abimelech of Gerar summoned them and took Sarah into his household.

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersMisrepresentationTaking Other PeopleSiblingsRelationship TroublesSportssarahrejuvenation

Didn't he say to me, "She's my sister'? And she also said, "He's my brother.' I did this with pure intentions and clean hands."

Verse ConceptsMisrepresentationPlea Of Innocence

Besides, she really is my sister she's my father's daughter, but not my mother's daughter so she could become my wife.

Verse ConceptsMarriage, Restrictions ConcerningSistersOther WivesSiblingsFather And Daughter RelationshipsFathers And Daughterssisterhoodsarah

And so it was, as soon as he saw the nose ring and bracelets on his sister's wrists, and as soon as he heard what his sister Rebekah was saying about what the man had spoken to her, he went out to the man who was still standing by the camels at the spring!

Verse ConceptsJewelleryNamed Sisters

So they sent off their sister Rebekah, along with her personal assistant, Abraham's servant, and his men.

Verse ConceptsBetrothalMarriage, Customs ConcerningMarriage, The BrideNamed SistersPeople Sending People

As they were leaving, they all blessed Rebekah by saying, "Our sister, may you become the mother of tens of millions! May your descendants take over the city gates of those who hate them."

Verse ConceptsBenedictionsBlessedA Million And MoreCapturing GatesPeople OvercomingPeople Who Blessed OthersChildren Being A Blessing

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsNamed Sisters

Later on, the men of that place asked about his wife, so he replied, "She's my sister," because he was afraid to call her "my wife." He kept thinking, ""otherwise, the men around here will kill me on account of Rebekah, since she's very beautiful."

Verse ConceptsExamples Of DeceitdoubtersAsking Particular QuestionsMisrepresentationOther WivesBeautiful Women

So Abimelech called Isaac and confronted him. "She is definitely your wife!" he accused him, "So why did you claim, "She's my sister?'" Isaac responded, "Because I had thought ""otherwise, I'll die on account of her.'"

Verse ConceptsPossibility Of DeathWhy Do You Do This?Transferring Wives

so he went to Abraham's son Ishmael and married Ishmael's daughter Mahalath, who was the sister of Nebaioth.

Verse ConceptsPolygamyNamed Sisters

When Laban heard the news about his sister's son Jacob, he ran out to meet him. He embraced him, kissed him, and brought him back to his house. Then Jacob told Laban about everything that had happened.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingArmsKissingIndividuals RunningNamed Sisters

Rachel noticed that she was not bearing children for Jacob, so because she envied her sister Leah, she told Jacob, "If you don't give me sons, I'm going to die!"

Verse ConceptsBarren WomenJealousyPolygamySistersSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfAnger Of Man, CausePossibility Of DeathThose Jealous Of People

so Rachel said, "I've been through a mighty struggle with my sister and won." She named him Naphtali.

Verse ConceptsPeople OvercomingWrestlingPeople With Apt Names

But Jacob's sons answered Shechem and his father Hamor deceptively, because Shechem had dishonored their sister Dinah.

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed SistersThose Who Deceivedhumor

They told them, "We can't do this. We can't give our sister to a man who isn't circumcised, because that would be insulting to us.

Verse ConceptsForeskinsUncircumcisionImpossible For PeopleNamed SistersUnable To Do Other Things

Jacob's other sons came along afterward and plundered the city where their sister had been defiled,

Verse ConceptsRapePeople Being PollutedNamed Sisters

"Should he have treated our sister like a whore?" they asked in response.

Verse ConceptsNamed Sisters

Ishamael's daughter Basemath (who was Nebaioth's sister).

Verse ConceptsNamed Sisters

Lotan's children were Hori and Hemam. Lotan's sister was Timna.

Verse ConceptsNamed Sisters

Asher's sons Imnah, Ishvah, Ishvi, Beriah, and their sister Serah. Beriah's sons Heber and Malchiel were also included.

Verse ConceptsTribes Of IsraelNamed Sisters