Genesis 22
1 Several years later, God tested Abraham [to find out] whether Abraham [really trusted in him and would obey him]. He called out to Abraham, and Abraham replied, “I’m here.”
| مدتی گذشت و خدا خواست ایمان ابراهیم را امتحان کند. پس او را ندا داد: «ای ابراهیم!» ابراهیم جواب داد: «بله، خداوندا!» |
2 God said, “Your son, Isaac, whom you love very much, is the only son [who is still here with you]. But take him and go together to the Moriah region. Offer him as a sacrifice like a burnt offering, on a hill that I will show you.”
| خدا فرمود: «یگانه پسرت یعنی اسحاق را که بسیار دوستش می‌داری برداشته، به سرزمین موریا برو و در آنجا وی را بر یکی از کوههایی که به تو نشان خواهم داد به عنوان هدیهٔ سوختنی، قربانی کن!» |
3 So Abraham got up early the next morning, put a saddle on his donkey, and took with him two of his servants along with his son, Isaac. He also chopped some wood to kindle a fire for a burnt offering. Then they started traveling to the place God told him about.
| ابراهیم صبح زود برخاست و مقداری هیزم جهت آتش قربانی تهیه نمود، الاغ خود را پالان کرد و پسرش اسحاق و دو نفر از نوکرانش را برداشته، به سوی مکانی که خدا به او فرموده بود، روانه شد. |
4 On the third day of their travels, Abraham looked up and saw in the distance the place where God wanted him to go.
| پس از سه روز راه، ابراهیم آن مکان را از دور دید. |
5 Abraham said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go over there. We will worship God there, and then we will come back to you.”
| پس به نوکران خود گفت: «شما در اینجا پیش الاغ بمانید تا من و پسرم به آن مکان رفته، عبادت کنیم و نزد شما برگردیم.» |
6 Then Abraham took the wood to kindle a fire for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, for him to carry. Abraham carried in his hand a [pan containing burning coals to start a] fire, and a knife, and the two of them walked along together.
| ابراهیم هیزمی را که برای قربانی سوختنی آورده بود، بر دوش اسحاق گذاشت و خودش کارد و وسیله‌ای را که با آن آتش روشن می‌کردند برداشت و با هم روانه شدند. |
7 Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham, saying, “My father!” Abraham replied, “Yes, my son, I’m here!” Isaac said, “Look, we have wood and [coals to light] a fire, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
| اسحاق پرسید: «پدر، ما هیزم و آتش با خود داریم، اما برهٔ قربانی کجاست؟» |
8 Abraham replied, “My son, God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering.” So the two of them continued walking along together.
| ابراهیم در جواب گفت: «پسرم، خدا برهٔ قربانی را مهیا خواهد ساخت.» و هر دو به راه خود ادامه دادند. |
9 They arrived at the place God had told him about. There, Abraham built a stone altar and arranged the wood on top of it. Then he tied his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood.
| وقتی به مکانی که خدا به ابراهیم فرموده بود رسیدند، ابراهیم مذبحی بنا کرده، هیزم را بر آن نهاد و اسحاق را بسته او را بر هیزم گذاشت. |
10 Then Abraham took the knife and reached out to kill his son.
| سپس او کارد را بالا برد تا اسحاق را قربانی کند. |
11 But an angel [who was really Yahweh] called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham! Abraham!” Abraham replied, “I’m here!”
| در همان لحظه، فرشتهٔ خداوند از آسمان ابراهیم را صدا زده گفت: «ابراهیم! ابراهیم!» او جواب داد: «بله خداوندا!» |
12 The angel said, “Do not harm the boy or do anything to injure him, because now I know that you respect and obey God. I know that because you have not refused to sacrifice your son, the only son [who is still with you].”
| فرشته گفت: «کارد را بر زمین بگذار و به پسرت آسیبی نرسان. اکنون دانستم که تو بسیار خداترس هستی، زیرا یگانه پسرت را از او دریغ نداشتی.» |
13 Then Abraham looked up and saw that a ram was nearby, whose horns had been caught in a (thicket/clump of bushes). So Abraham went over and grabbed the ram [and killed it], and sacrificed it on the altar as a burnt offering, instead of his son.
| آنگاه ابراهیم قوچی را دید که شاخهایش در بوته‌ای گیر کرده است. پس رفته قوچ را گرفت و آن را در عوض پسر خود به عنوان هدیهٔ سوختنی قربانی کرد. |
14 Abraham named that place ‘Yahweh will provide’. And to the present day, people say, “On Yahweh’s mountain, he will provide.”
| ابراهیم آن مکان را «یهوه یری» (یعنی «خداوند تدارک می‌بیند») نامید که تا به امروز به همین نام معروف است. |
15 The angel [who was really Yahweh] called out to Abraham from heaven a second time.
| بار دیگر فرشتهٔ خداوند از آسمان ابراهیم را ندا داده، به او گفت: |
16 He said, “I, Yahweh your Lord, am telling you that you did what I told you, and you have not refused to sacrifice your only son [that is with you]. So I say, ‘I solemnly swear, with myself as my witness,
| «خداوند می‌فرماید به ذات خود قسم خورده‌ام که چون مرا اطاعت کردی و حتی یگانه پسرت را از من دریغ نداشتی، |
17 that some day your descendants will be as numerous as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. And your descendants will defeat their enemies and capture their cities [SYN].’
| به‌یقین تو را برکت خواهم داد و نسل تو را مانند ستارگان آسمان و شنهای دریا کثیر خواهم ساخت. آنها بر دشمنان خود پیروز شده، |
18 You obeyed me, so by means of your descendants the people of all the nations on the earth will be blessed.”
| موجب برکت همهٔ قومهای جهان خواهند گشت، زیرا تو مرا اطاعت کرده‌ای.» |
19 Then Abraham and Isaac returned to where his servants were waiting, and they went back home together to Beersheba, and Abraham stayed there.
| پس ایشان نزد نوکران باز آمده، به سوی منزل خود در بئرشِبَع حرکت کردند. |
20 After these things happened, someone told Abraham, “Your brother Nahor’s wife, Milcah, has also given birth to children. She has eight sons.”
| بعد از این واقعه، به ابراهیم خبر رسید که مِلْکَه همسر ناحور برادر ابراهیم، هشت پسر به دنیا آورده است. |
21 The oldest son was Uz. The next was Buz. After him was Kemuel, the father of Aram.
| اسامی آنها از این قرار بود: پسر ارشدش عوص، و بعد بوز، قموئیل (جد ارامیان)، |
22 After Kemuel was Kesad, then Hazo, then Pildash, then Jidlaph, then Bethuel,
| کاسد، حزو، فلداش، یدلاف و بتوئیل. |
23 who was the father of Rebekah, [who later became Isaac’s wife]. Those were the eight sons of Milcah, wife of Abraham’s brother, Nahor.
| (بتوئیل پدر ربکا بود). علاوه بر این هشت پسر که از مِلکه به دنیا آمده بودند، |
24 Nahor also had a (concubine/female slave whom he took as a wife), whose name was Beumah. She gave birth to four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
| ناحور همچنین از کنیز خود به اسم رئومه، چهار فرزند دیگر داشت به نامهای طابح، جاحم، تاحش و معکه. |
