22:1 And it came to pass after these things, that God tempted
Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, [here]
I [am].
22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thy only [son] Isaac, whom
thou lovest, and go into the land of Moriah; and offer him
there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I
will name to thee.
22:3 And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass,
and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and
cleft the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose and went to the
place which God had named to him.
22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw
the place afar off.
22:5 And Abraham said to his young men, Abide you here with the
ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and return
to you.
22:6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid
[it] upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and
a knife: and they went both of them together.
22:7 And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father:
and he said, here [am] I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire
and the wood: but where [is] the lamb for a burnt-offering?
22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb
for a burnt-offering: so they went both of them together.
22:9 And they came to the place which God had named to him; and
Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order; and
bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife
to slay his son.
22:11 And the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and
said, Abraham, Abraham. And he said, Here [am] I.
22:12 And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do
thou any thing to him: for now I know that thou fearest God,
seeing thou hast not withheld from me thy son, thy only [son].
22:13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold,
behind [him] a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: And
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him for a
burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
22:14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh:
as it is said [to] this day, In the mount of the LORD it will
be seen.
22:15 And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven
the second time,
22:16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for
because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy
son, thy only [son]:
22:17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I
will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand
which [is] on the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the
gate of his enemies;
22:18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be
blessed: because thou hast obeyed my voice.
22:19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and
went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
22:20 And it came to pass after these things, that it was told
to Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne
children to thy brother Nahor;
22:21 Huz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the
father of Aram,
22:22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and
Bethuel.
22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah bore to
Nahor Abraham's brother.
22:24 And his concubine, whose name [was] Reumah, she bore also
Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
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