The Genesis
Chapter
22
1 After that, God put AbraHam to the test. He called to him, saying, 'AbraHam… AbraHam!' And [AbraHam] replied, 'Look! It's me!'
2 Then [God] said: 'Take your beloved son – this one whom you so love, IsaAc – then go to the highlands and offer him there on one of the mountains that I'll tell you about, as a burnt offering. 3 So AbraHam got up in the morning, saddled his burro, and [prepared to] take two servants and his son IsaAc with him. Then, after splitting some wood for the offering, he got up and traveled toward the place that God had spoken to him about.
4 Well, it was on the third day that AbraHam looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 Then AbraHam told his servants: 'Stay here with the burros; for my son and I will go over there… and after we bow low [before God], we will return to you.'
6 So AbraHam took the wood for the offering and laid it on his son IsaAc's [shoulders], and the two went off together, with him carrying both the fire and the knife in his own hands.
7Then IsaAc called out to his father (AbraHam): 'Father!' And he replied: 'What is it, son?' And [IsaAc] continued: 'Look! [We have the] the fire and the wood, but where is the sheep for the offering?'
8 Then AbraHam said: 'God will provide His own sheep for the offering, son.' So they both traveled on, and they 9 finally arrived at the place that God had spoken to him about. Then AbraHam built the altar there and laid the wood on it, tied his son IsaAc's feet together, and laid him on the wood on top of the altar. 10 And as AbraHam was reaching for the knife to slaughter his son, 11 a messenger of Jehovah called to him from the sky, and said, 'AbraHam… AbraHam!' And he said, 'Look, it's me!'
12 Then [the messenger] said, 'Don't lay a hand on the child and don't do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God. Why, you haven't spared even your loved son for My sake!'
13 And when AbraHam looked up, he saw {Look!} a male goat that was caught by its horns on a bush in the thicket. So AbraHam went over and grabbed the male goat; [then he] offered it as a whole burnt offering instead of his son, IsaAc.
14 Well, AbraHam thereafter named that place, 'The Lord Was Seen.' [He did that] so people today would say, 'This is the mountain where the Lord was seen.'
15 Then a messenger of Jehovah called AbraHam a second time from the sky, saying, 16 'This is what Jehovah said: I have sworn [an oath] by Myself that, because you've done this thing – because you haven't spared your loved son for Me – 17 when it comes to blessings, I will bless you, and when it comes to multiplying, I will multiply your seed as the stars in the skies and as the sands on the sea shore. Your seed will inherit the cities of their enemies, 18 and all the nations of the earth will be blest by your seed, because you've listened to My voice.'
19 Well thereafter, AbraHam returned to his servants, and they all got up and traveled together to the Well of the Promise. Then AbraHam took up living there at the Well of the Promise.
20 Later on, AbraHam received the report: 'Look! Melcha has given birth to sons by your brother NaHor! 21 Uz is the first-born, [then there is] Baux his brother, CamuEl (the father of the Syrians), Chazad, 22 Azav, Phaldes, JelDaph, and BathuEl (BathuEl was RebecKa's father). 23 Melcha bore these eight sons to AbraHam's brother NaHor. 24 In addition, his concubine (named RheUma) also gave birth to TaBec, TaAm, Tochos, and Mocha.'
2 Then [God] said: 'Take your beloved son – this one whom you so love, IsaAc – then go to the highlands and offer him there on one of the mountains that I'll tell you about, as a burnt offering. 3 So AbraHam got up in the morning, saddled his burro, and [prepared to] take two servants and his son IsaAc with him. Then, after splitting some wood for the offering, he got up and traveled toward the place that God had spoken to him about.
4 Well, it was on the third day that AbraHam looked up and saw the place in the distance. 5 Then AbraHam told his servants: 'Stay here with the burros; for my son and I will go over there… and after we bow low [before God], we will return to you.'
6 So AbraHam took the wood for the offering and laid it on his son IsaAc's [shoulders], and the two went off together, with him carrying both the fire and the knife in his own hands.
7Then IsaAc called out to his father (AbraHam): 'Father!' And he replied: 'What is it, son?' And [IsaAc] continued: 'Look! [We have the] the fire and the wood, but where is the sheep for the offering?'
8 Then AbraHam said: 'God will provide His own sheep for the offering, son.' So they both traveled on, and they 9 finally arrived at the place that God had spoken to him about. Then AbraHam built the altar there and laid the wood on it, tied his son IsaAc's feet together, and laid him on the wood on top of the altar. 10 And as AbraHam was reaching for the knife to slaughter his son, 11 a messenger of Jehovah called to him from the sky, and said, 'AbraHam… AbraHam!' And he said, 'Look, it's me!'
12 Then [the messenger] said, 'Don't lay a hand on the child and don't do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God. Why, you haven't spared even your loved son for My sake!'
13 And when AbraHam looked up, he saw {Look!} a male goat that was caught by its horns on a bush in the thicket. So AbraHam went over and grabbed the male goat; [then he] offered it as a whole burnt offering instead of his son, IsaAc.
14 Well, AbraHam thereafter named that place, 'The Lord Was Seen.' [He did that] so people today would say, 'This is the mountain where the Lord was seen.'
15 Then a messenger of Jehovah called AbraHam a second time from the sky, saying, 16 'This is what Jehovah said: I have sworn [an oath] by Myself that, because you've done this thing – because you haven't spared your loved son for Me – 17 when it comes to blessings, I will bless you, and when it comes to multiplying, I will multiply your seed as the stars in the skies and as the sands on the sea shore. Your seed will inherit the cities of their enemies, 18 and all the nations of the earth will be blest by your seed, because you've listened to My voice.'
19 Well thereafter, AbraHam returned to his servants, and they all got up and traveled together to the Well of the Promise. Then AbraHam took up living there at the Well of the Promise.
20 Later on, AbraHam received the report: 'Look! Melcha has given birth to sons by your brother NaHor! 21 Uz is the first-born, [then there is] Baux his brother, CamuEl (the father of the Syrians), Chazad, 22 Azav, Phaldes, JelDaph, and BathuEl (BathuEl was RebecKa's father). 23 Melcha bore these eight sons to AbraHam's brother NaHor. 24 In addition, his concubine (named RheUma) also gave birth to TaBec, TaAm, Tochos, and Mocha.'
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