GENESIS Chapter 22
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22:1 Some time later God tested Abraham; he called to him,
"Abraham!" And Abraham answered, "Yes, here I am!" |
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22:2 "Take
your son," God said, "your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much,
and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain
that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me." |
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22:3 Early the next
morning Abraham cut some wood for the sacrifice, loaded his donkey, and took
Isaac and two servants with him. They started out for the place that God had
told him about. |
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22:4 On the third
day Abraham saw the place in the distance. |
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22:5 Then he said
to the servants, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over
there and worship, and then we will come back to you." |
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22:6 Abraham made
Isaac carry the wood for the sacrifice, and he himself carried a knife and
live coals for starting the fire. As they walked along together, |
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22:7 Isaac spoke
up, "Father!" He answered, "Yes, my son?" Isaac asked,
"I see that you have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for
the sacrifice?" |
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22:8 Abraham
answered, "God himself will provide one." And the two of them
walked on together. |
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22:9 When they came
to the place which God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and
arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on
top of the wood. |
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22:10 Then he picked
up the knife to kill him. |
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22:11 But the angel
of the LORD called to him from heaven, "Abraham, Abraham!" He
answered, "Yes, here I am." |
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22:12 "Don't
hurt the boy or do anything to him," he said. "Now I know that you
honor and obey God, because you have not kept back your only son from
him." |
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22:13 Abraham looked
around and saw a ram caught in a bush by its horns. He went and got it and
offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son. |
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22:14 Abraham named
that place "The LORD Provides." And even today people say, "On
the LORD's mountain he provides." |
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22:15 The angel of
the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time, |
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22:16 "I make a
vow by my own name---the LORD is speaking---that I will richly bless you.
Because you did this and did not keep back your only son from me, |
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22:17 I promise that
I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of
sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies. |
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22:18 All the
nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants---all
because you obeyed my command." |
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22:19 Abraham went
back to his servants, and they went together to Beersheba, where Abraham
settled. |
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22:20 Some time
later Abraham learned that Milcah had borne eight
children to his brother Nahor: |
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22:21 Uz the first-born, Buz his
brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, |
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22:22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel, |
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22:23 Rebecca's
father. Milcah bore these eight sons to Nahor, Abraham's brother. |
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22:24 Reumah, Nahor's concubine, bore
Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. |
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