Genesis 22
1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
2 And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
3 And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.
So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
4 And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
5 Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.
“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”
6 And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.
7 Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?
Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.
Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.
9 And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.
When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.
10 And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
12 And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
13 And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14 And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,
And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,
16 Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,
saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
19 Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.
20 After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
21 Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
22 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.
Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
23 Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
24 And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.
Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
