- 1. And it came to pass after these things, that God tried Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! and he said, Here am I.
- 2. And he said, Take now thy son, thine only [son], whom thou lovest, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and there offer him up for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
- 3. And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went to the place that God had told him of.
- 4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
- 5. And Abraham said to his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
- 6. And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and the knife, and they went both of them together.
- 7. And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, My father! And he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the sheep for a burnt-offering?
- 8. And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself with the sheep for a burnt-offering. And they went both of them together.
- 9. And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there, and piled the wood; and he bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
- 10. And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son.
- 11. And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens, and said, Abraham, Abraham! And he said, Here am I.
- 12. And he said, Stretch not out thy hand against the lad, neither do anything to him; for now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son], from me.
- 13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt-offering instead of his son.
- 14. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh; as it is said at the present day, On the mount of Jehovah will be provided.
- 15. And the Angel of Jehovah called to Abraham from the heavens a second time,
- 16. and said, By myself I swear, saith Jehovah, that, because thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only [son],
- 17. I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
- 18. and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because thou hast hearkened to my voice.
- 19. And Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
- 20. And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne sons to thy brother Nahor:
- 21. Uz his first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
- 22. and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
- 23. (And Bethuel begot Rebecca.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
- 24. And his concubine, named Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maacah.
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