Genesis 26:23-35

English Standard Version

²³ From there he went up to Beersheba. ²⁴ And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, ^(A)“I am the God of Abraham your father. ^(B)Fear not, for ^(C)I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham's sake.” ²⁵ So he ^(D)built an altar there and called upon the name of the Lord and pitched his tent there. And there Isaac's servants dug a well.

²⁶ When Abimelech went to him from Gerar with Ahuzzath his adviser and ^(E)Phicol the commander of his army, ²⁷ Isaac said to them, “Why have you come to me, seeing that you hate me and ^(F)have sent me away from you?” ²⁸ They said, “We see plainly that the Lord has been with you. So we said, let there be a sworn pact between us, between you and us, and let us make a covenant with you, ²⁹ that you will do us no harm, just as we have not touched you and have done to you nothing but good and have sent you away in peace. ^(G)You are now the blessed of the Lord.” ³⁰ So he made them a feast, and they ate and drank. ³¹ In the morning they rose early and ^(H)exchanged oaths. And Isaac sent them on their way, and they departed from him in peace. ³² That same day Isaac's servants came and told him about the well that they had dug and said to him, “We have found water.” ³³ He called it Shibah;^[a] therefore the name of the city is ^(I)Beersheba to this day.

³⁴ When Esau was forty years old, he took ^(J)Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite, ³⁵ and ^(K)they made life bitter^[b] for Isaac and Rebekah.