1Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.[ † ]Deuteronomy 8:2-161 Corinthians 10:13Hebrews 11:17James 1:12-141 Peter 1:7
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.”[ † ]Genesis 22:12-16John 3:16Hebrews 11:171 John 4:9John 5:202 Chronicles 3:1Genesis 8:20Genesis 31:54
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.”[ † ]Hebrews 11:19
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.[ † ]John 19:17
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 Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.[ † ]John 1:29-36Exodus 12:3-6
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.[ † ]Hebrews 11:17-19James 2:21 10Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
11Just then the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.[ † ]Genesis 16:7-11Genesis 21:17-18Genesis 31:11
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.”[ † ]1 Samuel 15:22Genesis 26:5James 2:21-22Genesis 22:2-16John 3:16
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. 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.”
15And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time, 16saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,[ † ]Psalms 105:9Luke 1:73Hebrews 6:13-14 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.[ † ]Genesis 17:16Genesis 26:3-24Genesis 15:5Genesis 26:4Deuteronomy 1:10Jeremiah 33:22Hebrews 11:12Genesis 13:16Genesis 32:121 Kings 4:20Genesis 24:60 18And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”[ † ]Genesis 12:3Genesis 18:18Genesis 26:4Matthew 1:1Luke 3:34Acts 3:25-26Galatians 3:8-9, 16, 18Genesis 18:19Genesis 22:3-10Genesis 26:5
19Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.[ † ]Genesis 21:31
20Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:[ † ]Genesis 11:29Genesis 24:15 21Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),[ † ]Job 1:1Job 32:2 22Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
23And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.[ † ]Genesis 24:15 24Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.