Genesis 22 — FBV
22Verse 1Sometime later God tested Abraham. He called out to him, “Abraham!” “I'm here,” Abraham replied.Verse 2God told him, “Go with your son, your only son, the one you love, to the land of Moriah and sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I'll tell you about.”Verse 3Abraham got up early in the morning and saddled up his donkey. He took two servants and Isaac with him and went to cut firewood for the burnt offering. Then he left with them to go to the place God had told him about.Verse 4After traveling for three days Abraham could see the place in the distance.Verse 5He told his servants, “Wait here with the donkey while I go with the boy and worship God. Then we'll return.”Verse 6Abraham had Isaac carry the wood for the burnt offering, while he carried the fire and the knife, and they walked up together.Verse 7Isaac said to Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “Well, we have the fire and the wood, but where's the lamb for the burnt offering?” Isaac asked.Verse 8“God will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied, and they went on walking up together.Verse 9When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Then he bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.Verse 10Abraham picked up the knife, ready to slaughter his son.Verse 11But the angel of the Lord shouted to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Yes, I'm here,” he replied.Verse 12The angel said, “Don't touch the boy! Don't do anything to him, because now I know that you truly do what God tells you. You didn't refuse to give me your son, your only son.”Verse 13Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in some bushes. He brought the ram over and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.Verse 14Abraham called the place “The Lord will Provide.” That's still a saying people use today: “the Lord will provide on his mountain.”Verse 15The angel of the Lord shouted again to Abraham from heaven,Verse 16“I swear by myself, says the Lord, that because you have done this and didn't refuse to give me your son, your only son,Verse 17you can be sure that I will bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sand of the seashore, and they will conquer their enemies.+Verse 18All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your descendants because you did what I told you.”Verse 19Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they went back together to Beersheba where Abraham was living.Verse 20Sometime later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has had sons for your brother Nahor.”Verse 21Uz was the firstborn, then his brother Buz, Kemuel (who became the ancestor of Arameans),Verse 22Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.Verse 23(Bethuel was Rebekah's father.) Milcah had these eight sons for Abraham's brother Nahor.Verse 24In addition, Reumah his concubine had Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.