Genesis 22
1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
After these things, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
2 And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will show thee.
3 And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.
So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.
4 And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.
And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.
5 Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.
And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass: I and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.
6 And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.
And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together,
7 Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?
Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the holocaust?
8 And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.
And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together.
9 And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.
And they came to the place which God had shown him, where he built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.
10 And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
And he put forth his hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.
11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
And behold an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
12 And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.
13 And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.
14 And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,
And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:
16 Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,
By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake:
17 That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.
18 And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19 Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.
20 After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
After these things, it was told Abraham that Melcha also had borne children to Nachor his brother.
21 Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
Hus the firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Camuel the father of the Syrians,
22 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.
And Cased, and Azau, and Pheldas, and Jedlaph,
23 Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
And Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: These eight did Melcha bear to Nachor Abraham’s brother.
24 And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.
And his concubine, named Roma, bore Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha.
