1And it happened after these things that God tested Abraham. He 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 for yourself to the land of Moriah, and offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will tell you.”
3And 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 a burnt offering and arose and went to the place that God had told him.
4On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
5And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here for yourselves with the donkey, and I and the boy will go over there; and we will worship and return to you.”
6And 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. And the two of them went together.
7And Isaac said to Abraham his father, “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 the two of them went on together.
9And they came to the place that God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and he bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
11And the angel of Yahweh called out to him from the heavens 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.”
13And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a ram behind him, caught in the thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14And Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will See”; as it is said this day, “On the mountain of Yahweh it will be seen.”
15And the angel of Yahweh called out to Abraham a second time from the heavens,
16and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares Yahweh, that because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only one,
17that I will surely bless you and greatly multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the sand that is on the shore of the sea, and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
18And by your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
19And Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham dwelt in Beersheba.
20And it happened after these things that it was told to Abraham, saying, “Behold, Milcah too has borne sons to Nahor your brother:
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 fathered 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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