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time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he answered.
2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”
3 So early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his young men and his son Isaac. When he had cut some wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place from a distance. 5 And he said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will come back to you.”
6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked along together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “My father.”
And he replied, “Here I am, my son.”
“The fire and the wood are here,” Isaac said, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide a lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
9 When they arrived at the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 11 But the Angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
12 Then He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy, or do anything to him. 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 caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went over and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The Lord Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”
15 Then the Angel of the Lord called out from heaven to Abraham a second time 16 and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 I will surely bless you, and I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the heavens and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies, 18 and by your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My command.”
19 Then Abraham returned to his young men, and they set off together and went to Beer-sheba. And Abraham stayed at Beer-sheba.
20 Now after these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor. 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.