Chapter 22
1Some time later, God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
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.”
3So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey and took two of his servants and his son Isaac along. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
4On the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
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.”
6Abraham 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.
7Then 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?”
8Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering my son.” And the two walked on together.
9When 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.
10Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
11Just then the angel of AO called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
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.”
13Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram behind [him] caught in a thicket by its horns. So [he] went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14And Abraham called that place AO-Yireh. So it is said to this day, “On the mountain of AO it will be provided.”
15And the angel of AO called to Abraham a second time from heaven saying,
16“By Myself I have sworn declares AO that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
17I 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.
18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed because you have obeyed My voice.”
19Abraham went back to his servants and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.
20Some time later Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
21Uz, the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
22Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.”
23And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight [sons] to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
24Moreover, [Nahor’s] concubine whose name was Reumah bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.