22Genesis 22

The Tells Abraham To Offer Isaac as a Sacrifice

1Some years later God decided to test Abraham, so he spoke to him. Abraham answered, “Here I am, Lord.”Select Genesis 22:1

2The Lord said, “Go get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar.”Select Genesis 22:2

3So Abraham got up early the next morning and chopped wood for the fire. He put a saddle on his donkey and set out with Isaac and two servants for the place where God had told him to go.Select Genesis 22:3

4Three days later Abraham looked off in the distance and saw the place.Select Genesis 22:4

5He told his servants, “Stay here with the donkey, while my son and I go over there to worship. We will come back.”Select Genesis 22:5

6Abraham put the wood on Isaac's shoulder, but he carried the hot coals and the knife. As the two of them walked along,Select Genesis 22:6

8Isaac said, “Father, we have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?” “My son,” Abraham answered, “God will provide the lamb.” The two of them walked on, andSelect Genesis 22:8

9when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood.Select Genesis 22:9

10He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.Select Genesis 22:10

11But the Lord's angel shouted from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.Select Genesis 22:11

12“Don't hurt the boy or harm him in any way!” the angel said. “Now I know that you truly obey God, because you were willing to offer him your only son.”Select Genesis 22:12

13Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it instead of his son.Select Genesis 22:13

14Abraham named that place “The Lord Will Provide.” And even now people say, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”Select Genesis 22:14

15The Lord's angel called out from heaven a second time:Select Genesis 22:15

16You were willing to offer your only son to the Lord, and so he makes you this solemn promise,Select Genesis 22:16

17“I will bless you and give you such a large family, that someday your descendants will be more numerous than the stars in the sky or the grains of sand along the seashore. They will defeat their enemies and take over the cities where their enemies live.Select Genesis 22:17

18You have obeyed me, and so you and your descendants will be a blessing to all nations on earth.”Select Genesis 22:18

19Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him, and they returned to Abraham's home in Beersheba.Select Genesis 22:19

The Children of Nahor

23Abraham's brother Nahor had married Milcah, and Abraham was later told that they had eight sons. Uz was their first-born; Buz was next, and then there was Kemuel the father of Aram; their other five sons were: Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel the father of Rebekah.Select Genesis 22:23

24Nahor also had another wife. Her name was Reumah, and she had four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.Select Genesis 22:24