1.Some time later God tested Abrahma. He said to him, 'Abraham!" "Here I am," he replied.
2.Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of
Moriah. Sacifilce him tere as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about."
3.Early the next morning abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his
servants and his son Isaad. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out
for he place God had told him about.
4.On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
5.He said to his servants, "Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will
worship and then we will come back to you."
6lAbraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. and he himself carried
the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,
7.Isaad spoke up and said to his father Abraham, "Father?" "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied. "The
fire and wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
8.Abraham ansewered, "God himself will provied the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the
two of them went on together.
9.When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged
the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10.Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11.But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he
replied.
12."Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,
because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."
13.Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and
took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14.So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain
of the LORD it will be provided."
15.The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time
16.and said, "I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have
not withheld your son, your only son,
17.I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and
as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,
18.and through your offspring all nations on earth will blessed, because you have abeyed me."
19.Then Abraham returnde to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stay
in Beersheba.
20.Some time later Abraham was told, "Milcah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor;
21.Uz the firstborn, Buz his boother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
22.Kesed, Haza, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel."
23.Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham's brother Nahor.
24.His condubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tabah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.