Genesis Chapter 26 verse 11 Holy Bible
And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
read chapter 26 in ASV
And Abimelech gave orders to his people that anyone touching Isaac or his wife was to be put to death.
read chapter 26 in BBE
And Abimelech charged all the people, saying, He that touches this man or his wife shall certainly be put to death.
read chapter 26 in DARBY
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
read chapter 26 in KJV
And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
read chapter 26 in WBT
Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
read chapter 26 in WEB
and Abimelech commandeth all the people, saying, `He who cometh against this man or against his wife, dying doth die.'
read chapter 26 in YLT
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 11. - And Abimelech charged all his (literally, the) people, saying, He that toucheth - in the sense of injureth (cf. Joshua 9:19; Psalm 105:15) - this man or his wife shall surely be put to death. The similarity of this incident to that related in Genesis 20. concerning Abraham in Gerar may be explained without resorting to the hypothesis of different authors, The stereotyped character of the manners of antiquity, especially in the East, is sufficient to account for the danger to which Sarah was exposed recurring in the case of Rebekah three quarters of a century later. That Isaac should have resorted to the miserable expedient of his father may have been due simply to a lack of originality on the part of Isaac; or perhaps the recollection of the success which had attended his father's adoption of this wretched subterfuge may have blinded him to its true character. But from whatever cause resulting, the resemblance between the two narratives cannot be held as destroying the credibility of either, and all the more that a careful scrutiny will detect sufficient dissimilarity between them to establish the authenticity of the incidents which they relate. CHAPTER 26:12-22
