Genesis
22
New International Version (NIV)
Genesis
22
Abraham
Tested
1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him,
“Abraham!”
“Here I am,” he replied.
2 Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you
love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt
offering on a mountain I will show you.”
3 Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his
donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut
enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him
about. 4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the
distance. 5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey
while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back
to you.”
6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it
on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of
them went on together, 7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father
Abraham, “Father?”
“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.
“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac
said, “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 reached the place God had told him about, Abraham
built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and
laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he reached out
his hand and took the knife to slay his son. 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,” he said. “Do not do
anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld
from me your son, your only son.”
13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by
its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering
instead of his son. 14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will
Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be
provided.”
15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a
second time 16 and said, “I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that
because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17
I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in
the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession
of the cities of their enemies, 18 and through your offspring[b] all
nations on earth will be blessed,[c] because you
have obeyed me.”
19 Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off
together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
Nahor’s
Sons
20 Some time later Abraham was told, “Milkah is also a mother;
she has borne sons to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz the firstborn, Buz
his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram), 22 Kesed, Hazo, Pildash,
Jidlaph and Bethuel.” 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.
Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor. 24 His
concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and
Maakah.
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