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| 1Sometime later, God tested Abraham. He called out to him, "Abraham!" "Here I am!" he answered. | 1Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered. |
| 2God said, "Please take your son, your unique son whom you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering there on one of the mountains that I will point out to you." | 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 in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his male servants with him, along with his son Isaac. He cut the wood for the burnt offering and set out to go to the place about which God had spoken to him. | 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 he looked ahead and saw the place from a distance. | 4On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. |
| 5Abraham ordered his two servants, "Both of you are to stay here with the donkey. Now as for the youth and me, we'll go up there, we'll worship, and then we'll return to you." | 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.” |
| 6Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. Abraham carried the fire and the knife. And so the two of them went on together. | 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. |
| 7Isaac addressed his father Abraham: "My father!" "I'm here, my son," Abraham replied. Isaac asked, "The fire and the wood are here, but where's the lamb for the burnt offering?" | 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 will provide himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." The two of them went on together | 8Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together. |
| 9and came to the place about which God had spoken. Abraham built an altar there, arranged the wood, tied up his son Isaac, and placed him on the altar on top of the wood. | 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 he stretched out his hand and grabbed the knife to slaughter his son. | 10Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. |
| 11Just then, an angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven and said, "Abraham! Abraham!" "Here I am," he answered. | 11Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied. |
| 12"Don't lay your hand on the youth!" he said. "Don't do anything to him, because I've just demonstrated that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only unique one, from me." | 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 behind him to see a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So Abraham went over, grabbed the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. | 13Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son. |
| 14Abraham named that place, "The LORD Will Provide," as it is told this day, "On the LORD's mountain, he will provide." | 14And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.” |
| 15The angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven | 15And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time, |
| 16and said, "I have taken an oath to swear by myself," declares the LORD, "that since you have carried this out and have not withheld your only unique son, | 16saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son, |
| 17I will certainly bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in heaven and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies. | 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. |
| 18Furthermore, through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my command." | 18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” |
| 19After this, Abraham returned to his servants and they set out together for Beer-sheba, where Abraham settled. | 19Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba. |
| 20Now after these things somebody told Abraham, "Look, Milcah has given birth to sons for your brother Nahor. | 20Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor: |
| 21Uz is his firstborn, Buz is his brother, and Kemuel is the father of Aram, | 21Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram), |
| 22Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel." | 22Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.” |
| 23Bethuel fathered Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Nahor, Abraham's brother. | 23And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor. |
| 24Also, his concubine Reumah gave birth to Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. | 24Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. |
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