^{8 (J)} When he had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out of a window and saw Isaac laughing with Rebekah his wife. ^{9 (J)} So Abimelech called Isaac and said, "Behold, she is your wife. How then could you say, 'She is my sister'?" Isaac said to him, "Because I thought, 'Lest I die because of her.'" ^{10 (J)} 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." ^{11 (J)} So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, "Whoever touches this man or his wife shall surely be put to death."

^{12 (J)} And Isaac sowed in that land and reaped in the same year a hundredfold. The Lord blessed him, ^{13 (J)} and the man became rich, and gained more and more until he became very wealthy. ^{14 (J)} He had possessions of flocks and herds and many servants, so that the Philistines envied him. ^{15 (J)} (Now the Philistines had stopped and filled with earth all the wells that his father's servants had dug in the days of Abraham his father.) ^{16 (J)} And Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go away from us, for you are much mightier than we."