The Offering of Isaac
1. Some 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 I will show you.”
3. So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
4. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
5. Then Abraham said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”
6. Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac. And he himself carried the fire and the knife. The two of them walked on together.
7. Then Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “My father?”
“Here I am, my son,” he replied.
Isaac said, “The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8. Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
9. When 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.
10. Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
The LORD Provides the Sacrifice
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 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.”
13. Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So he took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14. And Abraham named that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
15. Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time from heaven
16. and said, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
17. I 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.
18. And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
19. Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
The Sons of Nahor
20. Some time later Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
21. Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel the father of Aram,
22. Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
23. Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
24. His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.