Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah! Listen to me! You wives of Lamech, hear my words! I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for hurting me.

Abraham replied, “Because I thought, ‘Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.’

“I left secretly because I was afraid!” Jacob replied to Laban. “I thought you might take your daughters away from me by force.

Reuben said to them, “Didn’t I say to you, ‘Don’t sin against the boy,’ but you wouldn’t listen? So now we must pay for shedding his blood!”

So Abimelech summoned Isaac and said, “She is really your wife! Why did you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought someone might kill me to get her.”