Genesis 22
1 After these things, God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” He answered, “Here I am.”
2 God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah. There, offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will point out to you.”
3 Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his servants and Isaac his son with him. He split wood for the burnt offering, got up, and went to the place God had shown him.
4 On the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
5 Abraham said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there, worship, and come back to you.”
6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on Isaac his son. He himself carried the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.
7 Isaac said to Abraham his father, “My father!” He answered, “Here I am, my son.” Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 Abraham answered, “God will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
9 They came to the place God had shown him. There Abraham built the altar and arranged the wood. He bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
11 But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” He answered, “Here I am.”
12 The Angel of the LORD said, “Do not reach out your hand against the boy, and do nothing to him, because now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
13 Abraham looked up and saw a ram behind him, caught by its horns in a thicket. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14 Abraham named that place The LORD Will Provide. That is why people say to this day, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
15 The Angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time.
16 He said, “I swear by myself,” declares the LORD, “because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
17 I will surely bless you and greatly multiply your descendants, like the stars of the sky and like the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.
18 And all the nations of the earth will be blessed through your descendants, because you obeyed my voice.”
19 Abraham returned to his servants, and they got up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham settled in Beersheba.
20 After these things, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
21 Uz, his firstborn; Buz, his brother; Kemuel, the father of Aram;
22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
23 Bethuel fathered Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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