Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Don’t be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
⛓ Read Genesis 26 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
Closest single parallel: the LORD appears to Isaac by night and says, 'Do not be afraid, for I am with you... I will multiply your offspring.' Night theophany + 'fear not' + 'I am with you' + promise of a great people maps almost point-for-point onto vv.9-10, including 'I have many people in this city.'
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'That same night the LORD appeared to him and said, Do not fear, for I am with you' (to Isaac) is a tight formal parallel: a night theophany of reassurance. Low Volume but strong formal coherence; contested as a specific source.
Low confidence