![]() 15– 18, the angel repeats the seventh and climactic promise. The style is laconic motivations and thoughts are not explained, and the reader cannot but wonder at the scene. Abraham speaks simply, with none of the wordy evasions of chaps. The story is widely recognized as a literary masterpiece, depicting in a few lines God as the absolute Lord, inscrutable yet ultimately gracious, and Abraham, acting in moral grandeur as the great ancestor of Israel. * The divine demand that Abraham sacrifice to God the son of promise is the greatest of his trials after the successful completion of the test, he has only to buy a burial site for Sarah and find a wife for Isaac. ![]() These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.Ģ4His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore children: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah. * 20Some time afterward, the news came to Abraham: “Milcah too has borne sons to your brother Nahor:Ģ1Uz, his firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel the father of Aram,Ģ2Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”Ģ3Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. * 14Abraham named that place Yahweh-yireh * hence people today say, “On the mountain the L ORD will provide.”ġ5 * A second time the angel of the L ORD called to Abraham from heavenġ6 f and said: “I swear by my very self-oracle of the L ORD-that because you acted as you did in not withholding from me your son, your only one,ġ7I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies, g 18and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing, because you obeyed my command.” hġ9Abraham then returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer-sheba, where Abraham lived. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son. ![]() For now I know that you fear God, since you did not withhold from me your son, your only one.” e 13Abraham looked up and saw a single ram caught by its horns in the thicket. d 11But the angel of the L ORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.ġ2“Do not lay your hand on the boy,” said the angel. c 10Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son. Next he bound * his son Isaac, and put him on top of the wood on the altar. Isaac continued, “Here are the fire and the wood, but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”Ĩ“My son,” Abraham answered, “God will provide the sheep for the burnt offering.” Then the two walked on together.ĩWhen they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. As the two walked on together,ħIsaac spoke to his father Abraham. We will worship and then come back to you.”ĦSo Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. b 3Early the next morning Abraham saddled his donkey, took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac, and after cutting the wood for the burnt offering, set out for the place of which God had told him.ĤOn the third day Abraham caught sight of the place from a distance.ĥAbraham said to his servants: “Stay here with the donkey, while the boy and I go on over there. There offer him up as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you. a 2Then God said: Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. * 1Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test and said to him: Abraham! “Here I am!” he replied.
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