High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! There are three wife-sister narratives in Genesis, part of the Torah, all of which are strikingly similar. At the core of each is the tale of a Biblical Patriarch, who has come to be in the land of a powerful foreign overlord who misidentifies the Patriarch`s wife as the Patriarch`s sister, and consequently attempts to wed her himself. The overlord later finds out his error. Two of the three stories are similar in many other details, including the antagonist`s name, Abimelech, although this could be construed as being a royal title, or a family name.