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22:1  After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
22:2  Then He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, 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.”
22:3  So Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place that God had told him.
22:4  Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance.
22:5  Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there and worship and then return to you.”
22:6  So 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. So the two of them walked on together.
22:7  But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” Then he said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
22:8  Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.
22:9  Then they came to the place that God had told him. So Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
22:10  Then Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
22:11  But the angel of the Lord called to him out of heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
22:12  Then He said, “Do not lay your hands on the boy or do anything to him, because now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your only son from Me.”
22:13  Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up as a burnt offering in the place of his son.
22:14  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.”
22:15  Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham out of heaven a second time,
22:16  and said, “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
22:17  I will indeed bless you and I will indeed multiply your descendants as the stars of the heavens and as the sand that is on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gate of their enemies.
22:18  Through your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
22:19  So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. Then Abraham lived at Beersheba.
22:20  After these things Abraham was told, “Milkah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:
22:21  Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
22:22  Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
22:23  Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah gave birth to these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
22:24  His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maakah.