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Abraham’s Faith Tested
Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called.
“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”
Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called.
“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”
The Offering of Isaac
Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
“Take your son, your only son — yes, Isaac, whom you love so much — and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
He said, “Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.”
The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about.
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.
On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”
Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.”
So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together,
Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.
Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”
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 lamb for the burnt offering?”
“God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.
Abraham said, “God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them walked on together.
When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.
Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice.
Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
At that moment the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”
“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”
But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
“Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”
He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”
Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.
Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the LORD will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
Abraham called the name of that place The LORD Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the LORD it will be provided.”
Then the angel of the LORD called again to Abraham from heaven.
Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
“This is what the LORD says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your son, your only son, I swear by my own name that
and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son,
indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.
And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed — all because you have obeyed me.”
“In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
Then they returned to the servants and traveled back to Beersheba, where Abraham continued to live.
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.
Soon after this, Abraham heard that Milcah, his brother Nahor’s wife, had borne Nahor eight sons.
Now it came about after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
The oldest was named Uz, the next oldest was Buz, followed by Kemuel (the ancestor of the Arameans),
Uz his firstborn and Buz his brother and Kemuel the father of Aram
Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
and Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.”
(Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) In addition to these eight sons from Milcah,
Bethuel became the father of Rebekah; these eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.