Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife, for my time of service is up. I want to have marital relations with her.”

“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife gave me two sons.

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

When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, “She is my sister.” He was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” for he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful.”