⁸ From there he moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. He built an altar to the Lord there, and he called on the name of the Lord.^(A)

Abraham’s Three Visitors

18 The Lord appeared to Abraham at the oaks of Mamre^(A) while he was sitting at the entrance of his tent during the heat of the day.

⁵ He didn’t give him an inheritance in it—not even a foot of ground—but he promised to give it to him as a possession, and to his descendants after him,^(A) even though he was childless.

¹⁷ Because God wanted to show his unchangeable purpose even more clearly to the heirs of the promise, he guaranteed it with an oath,^(A)