Genesis 22

¹Genesis 22:1. Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.²Genesis 22:2. “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

³Genesis 22:3. So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.⁴Genesis 22:4. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.⁵Genesis 22:5. “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”⁶Genesis 22:6. Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. He himself carried the fire and the sacrificial knife, and the two of them walked on together.⁷Genesis 22:7. Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”⁸Genesis 22:8. Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.

⁹Genesis 22:9. When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.¹⁰Genesis 22:10. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.¹¹Genesis 22:11. Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.¹²Genesis 22:12. “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”¹³Genesis 22:13. Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.¹⁴Genesis 22:14. And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

¹⁵Genesis 22:15. And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,¹⁶Genesis 22:16. saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,¹⁷Genesis 22:17. I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.¹⁸Genesis 22:18. And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”¹⁹Genesis 22:19. Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.²⁰Genesis 22:20. Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:²¹Genesis 22:21. Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),²²Genesis 22:22. Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”²³Genesis 22:23. And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.²⁴Genesis 22:24. Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.