Génesis 22
1 Después de estas cosas, Dios puso a prueba a Abraham, y le dijo: ¡Abraham! y él dijo: Heme aquí.
Several years later, God tested Abraham [to find out] whether Abraham [really trusted in him and would obey him]. He called out to Abraham, and Abraham replied, “I’m here.”
2 Y él le dijo: Toma a tu hijo, tu único y amado hijo Isaac, y ve a la tierra de Moriah, y ofrécelo como holocausto en uno de los montes, del cual yo te daré conocimiento.
God said, “Your son, Isaac, whom you love very much, is the only son [who is still here with you]. But take him and go together to the Moriah region. Offer him as a sacrifice like a burnt offering, on a hill that I will show you.”
3 Y Abraham se levantó temprano en la mañana, y preparó su asno, y tomó consigo dos de sus jóvenes e Isaac, su hijo, y después de que se había cortado el leño para la ofrenda quemada, se fue en su camino al lugar del cual Dios le había dado la palabra.
So Abraham got up early the next morning, put a saddle on his donkey, and took with him two of his servants along with his son, Isaac. He also chopped some wood to kindle a fire for a burnt offering. Then they started traveling to the place God told him about.
4 Y al tercer día, Abraham, alzando sus ojos, vio el lugar de lejos.
On the third day of their travels, Abraham looked up and saw in the distance the place where God wanted him to go.
5 Entonces dijo a sus jóvenes: Quédate aquí con el asno; y yo y el niño continuaremos y rendiremos culto y regresaremos a ti.
Abraham said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go over there. We will worship God there, and then we will come back to you.”
6 Y Abraham puso la leña para la ofrenda quemada en la espalda de su hijo, y él mismo tomó el fuego y él cuchillo en su mano, y los dos siguieron juntos.
Then Abraham took the wood to kindle a fire for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, for him to carry. Abraham carried in his hand a [pan containing burning coals to start a] fire, and a knife, and the two of them walked along together.
7 Entonces Isaac dijo a Abraham: Mi padre; y él dijo: Heme aquí, mi hijo. Y él dijo: Aquí tenemos leña y fuego, pero ¿dónde está el cordero para la ofrenda quemada?
Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham, saying, “My father!” Abraham replied, “Yes, my son, I’m here!” Isaac said, “Look, we have wood and [coals to light] a fire, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 Y Abraham dijo: Dios mismo dará el cordero para el holocausto; y así continuaron juntos.
Abraham replied, “My son, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering.” So the two of them continued walking along together.
9 Y vinieron al lugar del cual Dios le había dado conocimiento; y allí hizo Abraham el altar, y puso la leña en su lugar, y cerrando las ataduras alrededor de su hijo Isaac, lo puso sobre la leña sobre el altar.
They arrived at the place God had told him about. There, Abraham built a stone altar and arranged the wood on top of it. Then he tied his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.
10 Y extendiendo su mano, Abraham tomó el cuchillo para matar a su hijo.
Then Abraham took the knife and reached out to kill his son.
11 Pero la voz del ángel del Señor vino del cielo, diciendo: Abraham, Abraham, y él dijo: Heme aquí.
But an angel [who was really Yahweh] called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham! Abraham!” Abraham replied, “I’m here!”
12 Y él dijo: No se extienda tu mano contra el niño para hacerle nada; por ahora estoy seguro de que el temor de Dios está en tu corazón, porque no has retenido a tu hijo, tu único hijo, de mí.
The angel said, “Do not harm the boy or do anything to injure him, because now I know that you respect and obey God. I know that because you have not refused to sacrifice your son, the only son [who is still with you].”
13 Y alzando sus ojos, Abraham vio una oveja fijada por los cuernos en la maleza: y Abraham tomó las ovejas e hizo una ofrenda quemada en lugar de su hijo.
Then Abraham looked up and saw that a ram was nearby, whose horns had been caught in a (thicket/clump of bushes). So Abraham went over and grabbed the ram [and killed it], and sacrificed it on the altar as a burnt offering, instead of his son.
14 Y dio Abraham aquel lugar el nombre del Señor proveerá, y dijo: Como se dice hasta hoy, en el monte del Señor se proveerá.
Abraham named that place ‘Yahweh will provide’. And to the present day, people say, “On Yahweh’s mountain, he will provide.”
15 Y la voz del ángel del Señor vino a Abraham una segunda vez desde el cielo,
The angel [who was really Yahweh] called out to Abraham from heaven a second time.
16 Diciendo: He jurado por mi nombre, dice el Señor, porque has hecho esto y no has apartado de mí a tu único hijo amado,
He said, “I, Yahweh your Lord, am telling you that you did what I told you, and you have not refused to sacrifice your only son [that is with you]. So I say, ‘I solemnly swear, with myself as my witness,
17 que ciertamente te daré mi bendición, y tu simiente será aumentada como las estrellas del cielo y la arena a la orilla del mar; tu simiente tomará la tierra de los que están en contra de ellos;
that some day your descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. And your descendants will defeat their enemies and capture their cities [SYN].’
18 Y tu descendencia será bendición para todas las naciones de la tierra, porque has hecho lo que te ordené que hicieras.
You obeyed me, so by means of your descendants the people of all the nations on the earth will be blessed.”
19 Entonces Abraham regresó con sus jóvenes y se fueron juntos a Beerseba, el lugar donde Abraham vivía.
Then Abraham and Isaac returned to where his servants were waiting, and they went back home together to Beersheba, and Abraham stayed there.
20 Después de estas cosas, Abraham tuvo noticias de que Milca, la esposa de su hermano Nacor, había dado a luz a niños;
After these things happened, someone told Abraham, “Your brother Nahor’s wife, Milcah, has also given birth to children. She has eight sons.”
21 Uz el mayor, y Buz su hermano, y Kemuel, padre de Aram,
The oldest son was Uz. The next was Buz. After him was Kemuel, the father of Aram.
22 Y Quesed, Hazo, Pildas, Jidlaf, Betuel.
After Kemuel was Kesad, then Hazo, then Pildash, then Jidlaph, then Bethuel,
23 Betuel fue el padre de Rebeca; estos ocho fueron los hijos de Milca y Nacor, hermano de Abraham.
who was the father of Rebekah, [who later became Isaac’s wife]. Those were the eight sons of Milcah, wife of Abraham’s brother, Nahor.
24 Y su concubina Reúma dio a luz a Teba, Gaham, Tahas y Maaca.
Nahor also had a (concubine/female slave whom he took as a wife), whose name was Beumah. She gave birth to four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
