1After these things, God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham." And he said, "Here I am."
2And he said, "Take now your son, 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 that I will tell you about."
3Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He cut the wood for the burnt offering, and set out, and went to the place God had told him about.
4Then on the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far off.
5Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there and worship, and then come back to you."
6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He carried the fire in his hand, and a knife. And the two of them went on together.
7Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Look, here is the fire and the wood. But where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
8And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering." So the two of them went on together.
9They came to the place that God had told him about. There Abraham built an altar and laid the wood in order. He tied up Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
11But the angel of the LORD called to him out of heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham." And he said, "Here I am."
12And he said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy. Do not do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not held back your son, your only son, from me."
13Abraham looked up, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh. So it is said to this day, "In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen."
15The angel of the LORD called to Abraham out of heaven a second time,
16and said, "I have sworn by myself, says the LORD, that because you have done this thing, and have not held back your son, your only son,"
17I will surely bless you. I will surely multiply your offspring like the stars of heaven, and like the sand on the seashore. And your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
18"In your offspring all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice."
19So Abraham went back to his young men, and they set out and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
20After these things, Abraham was told, "Look, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:"
21Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
22"and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
24And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.