And
it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said
unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son
Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer
him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell
thee of.
3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and
saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his
son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto
the place of which God had told him.
4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes,
and saw the place afar off.
5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye
here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come
again to you.
6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering,
and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand,
and a knife; and they went both of them together.
7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and
said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said,
Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt
offering?
8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide
himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
9 And they came to the place which God had told him
of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and
bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took
the knife to slay his son.
11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of
heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad,
neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God,
seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and
behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and
Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in
the stead of his son.
14 And Abraham called the name of that place
Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD
it shall be seen.
15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham
out of heaven the second time,
16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the
LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy
son, thine only son:
17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as
the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess
the gate of his enemies;
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they
rose up and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
20 And it came to pass after these things, that it
was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto
thy brother Nahor;
21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and
Kemuel the father of Aram,
22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph,
and Bethuel.
23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah
did bear to Nahor, Abrahams brother.
24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah,
she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.