Genesis 22:4
New International Version
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

New Living Translation
On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

English Standard Version
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

Berean Standard Bible
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

King James Bible
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

New King James Version
Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.

New American Standard Bible
On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

NASB 1995
On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

NASB 1977
On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

Legacy Standard Bible
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

Amplified Bible
On the third day [of travel] Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Christian Standard Bible
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

American Standard Version
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and he saw that place from a distance.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
on the third day; and Abraam having lifted up his eyes, saw the place afar off.

Contemporary English Version
Three days later Abraham looked off in the distance and saw the place.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.

English Revised Version
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Two days later Abraham saw the place in the distance.

Good News Translation
On the third day Abraham saw the place in the distance.

International Standard Version
On the third day he looked ahead and saw the place from a distance.

JPS Tanakh 1917
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

Literal Standard Version
On the third day—Abraham lifts up his eyes, and sees the place from afar;

Majority Standard Bible
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

New American Bible
On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place from a distance.

NET Bible
On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.

New Revised Standard Version
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away.

New Heart English Bible
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

World English Bible
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

Young's Literal Translation
On the third day -- Abraham lifteth up his eyes, and seeth the place from afar;

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Offering of Isaac
3So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. 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.”…

Cross References
Genesis 22:3
So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.

Genesis 22:5
"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."


Treasury of Scripture

Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.

third.

Exodus 5:3
And they said, The God of the Hebrews hath met with us: let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword.

Exodus 15:22
So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

Exodus 19:11,15
And be ready against the third day: for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai…

saw.

1 Samuel 26:13
Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of an hill afar off; a great space being between them:

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Genesis 22
1. Abraham is tested with the command to offer Isaac.
3. He gives proof of his faith and obedience.
11. The angel prevents him.
13. Isaac is exchanged for a ram.
14. The place is called Jehovah-jireh.
15. Abraham is again blessed.
20. The generations of Nahor unto Rebekah.














(4) On the third day.--We may compare the patriarch's feelings during these two weary days of travel with those of Hagar as she wandered in the wilderness, and each day felt the death of her child growing nearer and more certain. But hers were human sorrows only, while Abraham was giving up the son on whom his spiritual hopes depended.

Afar off.--The summit called the Mountain of the House, usually identified with Mount Moriah, cannot be seen by a traveller from Beer-sheba at a greater distance than three miles (Stanley, Sinai and Palestine, p. 251). Hence it has been argued that some more widely conspicuous hill-top must be meant. But the phrase afar off is used very indefinitely, and three miles exactly agrees with what Abraham did. For he left the servants at the spot, and laid the wood on Isaac, and went the rest of the way on foot. It must have sorely taxed the strength of the lad to be compelled to carry the wood a distance of three miles; while to have carried it from the spot where Gerizim becomes visible would have been impossible.

In Isaac thus carrying the wood on which he was to be sacrificed, the Fathers discerned a type of Christ carrying his cross (John 19:17).

Verse 4. - Then on the third day - Jerusalem, being distant from Beersheba about twenty and a half hours' journey according to Robinson, could easily; be within sight on the third day - Abraham lifted up his eyes, - not implying that the object of vision was above him (cf. Genesis 13:10) - and saw the place (which Calvin conjectures he had previously beheld in vision) afar off. Though Mount Moriah cannot be seen by the traveler from Beersheba till within a distance of three miles (Stanley, 'Sinai and Palestine,' p. 251), the place or region where it is can be detected (Kalisch).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
On the third
הַשְּׁלִישִׁ֗י (haš·šə·lî·šî)
Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's 7992: Third, feminine a, third, a third, a third-story cell)

day
בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

Abraham
אַבְרָהָ֧ם (’aḇ·rā·hām)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 85: Abraham -- 'exalted father', the father of the Jewish nation

looked up
וַיִּשָּׂ֨א (way·yiś·śā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

and saw
וַיַּ֥רְא (way·yar)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7200: To see

the place
הַמָּק֖וֹם (ham·mā·qō·wm)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

in the distance.
מֵרָחֹֽק׃ (mê·rā·ḥōq)
Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7350: Remote, of place, time, precious


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