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¹AND it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham. And he said, Look, here I am. ²And he said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of the Amorites; and offer him there for a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.

³And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey and took 2 of his young men with him and Isaac his son, and cut wood for the burnt offering and rose up and went to the place of which God had told him. ⁴And on the 3rd day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place far away. ⁵And he said to his young men, You stay here with the donkey, and the boy and I will go over there to worship and return to you. ⁶And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took the fire in a container and a knife in his hand, and they went both of them together. ⁷And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, My father. And he answered, Here I am, my son. And Isaac said, Look the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering? ⁸And Abraham said, God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son. So they went both of them together. ⁹And they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood. ¹⁰Then Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

¹¹And the angel of Yahvah called to him from heaven and said, Abraham! Abraham! And he said, Here I am. ¹²And he said to him, Do not lay your hand on the boy, nor will you harm him; for now I know that you are a man who reveres God, seeing that you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me. ¹³And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and saw a ram caught in a thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴And Abraham called the name of that place Mariahnekhzey, that is, Yahvah will provide, as it is said to this day on this mountain, Yahvah will provide.

¹⁵And the angel of Yahvah called to Abraham from heaven a 2nd time ¹⁶And said, I have sworn by myself, says Yahvah, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son, from me, ¹⁷I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is on the sea shore; and your descendants will inherit the lands of their enemies; ¹⁸And by your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed because you have obeyed my voice. ¹⁹So Abraham returned to his young men and they rose up and went together to Beersheba, and Abraham lived in Beersheba.

²⁰And it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, Look, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor: ²¹Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram, ²²And Khasar, Hazo, Pilrash, Jarlaph, and Bethuel. ²³And Bethuel begot Rebekah; these 8 Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother. ²⁴And his concubine, whose name was Romah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah.