God tests Abraham about Isaac
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📚And after these things it came about that God tested Abraham 📖, and said to him, “Abraham”. And he said, “See, here I am 📖”.2 📚And he said, “Take now 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 which I will tell you about”.
3 📚And Abraham got up early in the morning 📖, saddled his donkey, took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son, cut up the wood 📖 for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place which God had told him about. 4 📚Then on the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place at a distance. 5 📚And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go over there and worship and come back to you”.
22:5 The words “come back” seem to indicate Abraham’s faith.⚜
6 📚And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and put it on his son Isaac 📖. And he took the fire in his hand and a knife, and the two of them went on together. 7 📚And Isaac spoke to his father Abraham and said, “My father”. And he said, “Here I am, my son”. And he said, “See, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
8 📚And Abraham said, “My son, God himself will provide 📖 a lamb for a burnt offering”. So the two of them went on together.
9 📚And they came to the place which God had told him about, and Abraham built an altar there, arranged the wood on it, bound his son Isaac, and placed him on top of the wood on the altar 📖. 10 📚And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
22:10 The moment of final obedience came and Abraham did not shrink back.⚜
11 📚And the angel of the LORD 📖 called to him out of heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham”. And he said, “Here I am”.
12 📚And he said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy, and do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son from me”.
13 📚And Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behind him a ram appeared, caught in a thicket by its horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 📚And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah Jireh 📖, just as it is said to this day, “In the mountain of the LORD it will be provided 📖”.
15 And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham out of heaven a second time, 16 📚and said, “I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 📚that I will certainly bless you 📖, and I will certainly increase the number of your offspring 📖 like the stars of heaven and like the sand which is on the seashore. And your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies. 18 📚And in your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice”.
19 📚So Abraham returned to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beersheba, and Abraham stayed at Beersheba.
20 📚After these things it came about that someone told Abraham, saying, “Now Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor 📖: 21 📚Huz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel”. 23 📚And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah 📖. Milcah bore these eight to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. 24 📚And his concubine also, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah.