Genesis 22
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1Now it happened after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." 2And He said, "Take now your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you." 3So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up and went to the place of which God had told him. 4On the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place from afar. 5And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go yonder. We will worship and we will return to you." 6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together. 7And Isaac said to Abraham his father, and he said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?" 8And Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." And they went both of them together. 9They came to the place of which God had told him, and Abraham built the altar there, and arranged the wood, and bound Isaac his son, and placed him on the altar upon the wood. 10Then Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. 11But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." 12And He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from Me." 13Abraham lifted his eyes and saw, and look, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 14And Abraham called the name of that place The-LORD-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided." 15Then the angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven, 16and said, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only one: 17blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your offspring as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies. 18And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will bless themselves, because you have obeyed My voice." 19So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beersheba. 20Now it happened after these things, that it was told to Abraham, saying, "Look, Milcah also has borne sons to your brother Nahor: 21Uz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, 22and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel." 23And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.
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