Genesis 22 :: New International Version (NIV)

Abraham Tested

(Heb 11:17–19 )

Gen 22:1Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.

Gen 22:2Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you.”

Gen 22:3

Gen 22:3Early the next morning Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.

Gen 22:4

Gen 22:4On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Gen 22:5

Gen 22:5He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”

Gen 22:6

Gen 22:6Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,

Gen 22:7

Gen 22:7Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

Gen 22:8

Gen 22:8Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

Gen 22:9

Gen 22:9When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

Gen 22:10

Gen 22:10Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

Gen 22:11

Gen 22:11But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.

Gen 22:12

Gen 22:12“Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”

Gen 22:13

Gen 22:13Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[fn] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

Gen 22:14

Gen 22:14So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

Gen 22:15

Gen 22:15The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time

Gen 22:16

Gen 22:16and said, “I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Gen 22:17

Gen 22:17I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

Gen 22:18

Gen 22:18and through your offspring[fn] all nations on earth will be blessed,[fn] because you have obeyed me.”

Gen 22:19

Gen 22:19Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.

Nahor’s Sons

Gen 22:20

Gen 22:20Some time later Abraham was told, “Milkah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

Gen 22:21

Gen 22:21Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

Gen 22:22

Gen 22:22Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.”

Gen 22:23

Gen 22:23Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milkah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.

Gen 22:24

Gen 22:24His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maakah.

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NIV Footnotes

(22:13)

Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text a ram behind him

(22:18)

Or seed

(22:18)

Or and all nations on earth will use the name of your offspring in blessings (see 48:20)

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