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The Offering of Isaac

¹ Now it happened after these things, that ^(C1)God tested Abraham and said to him, "^(C2)Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."² Then He said, "Take now ^(C1)your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and ^(C2)go forth to the land of ^(C3)Moriah, and offer him there as a ^(C4)burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you."³ So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.⁴ On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance.⁵ And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there; and we will worship, and we will return to you."⁶ Then Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and ^(C1)put it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.

⁷ Then Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the ^(C1)lamb for the burnt offering?"⁸ And Abraham said, "God will ^(F1)provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.

⁹ Then they came to ^(C1)the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built ^(C2)the altar there and arranged the wood and bound his son Isaac and ^(C3)put him on the altar, on top of the wood.¹⁰ And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.¹¹ But ^(C1)the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."¹² And He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do nothing to him; for now ^(C1)I know that you ^(F1)fear God, since you have not withheld ^(C2)your son, your only one, from Me."¹³ Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, there was a ram after it had been caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of that place ^(F1)Yahweh Will Provide, as it is said this day, "In the mount of Yahweh ^(C1)it will ^(F2)be provided."

¹⁵ Then the angel of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from heaven,¹⁶ and said, "^(C1)By Myself I have sworn, declares Yahweh, because you have done this thing and have not spared your son, your only one,¹⁷ indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly ^(C1)multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as ^(C2)the sand which is on the seashore; and ^(C3)your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies.¹⁸ "^(C1)In your ^(F1)seed all the nations of the earth shall ^(F2)be blessed, because you have ^(C2)listened to My voice."^19 (C1)So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and walked together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

²⁰ Now it happened after these things, that it was told to Abraham, saying, "Behold, ^(C1)Milcah ^(F1)also has borne children to your brother Nahor:²¹ Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram²² and Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel."²³ And Bethuel ^(F1)was the father of ^(C1)Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.²⁴ And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, ^(F1)also bore Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.