24 And the Lord ^aappeared to him the same night and said, ^b“I am the God of your father Abraham; ^cdo not fear, for ^dI am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for My servant Abraham’s sake.”  ‡

25 So he ^abuilt an altar there and ^bcalled on the name of the Lord, and he pitched his tent there; and there Isaac’s servants dug a well.  ‡

27 And Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, ^asince you hate me and have ^bsent me away from you?”  ‡

28 But they said, “We have certainly seen that the Lord ^ais with you. So we said, ‘Let there now be an oath between us, between you and us; and let us make a¹ covenant with you,  ‡