7 Então os homens do lugar perguntaram-lhe acerca de sua mulher, e ele respondeu: É minha irmã; porque temia dizer: É minha mulher; para que porventura, dizia ele, não me matassem os homens daquele lugar por amor de Rebeca; porque era ela formosa � vista.
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When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he said, “She is my sister,” because he was afraid to say, “She is my wife.” He thought, “The men of this place might kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is beautiful.”