022:002 He said, "Now take your son, your only son, whom you love,
even Isaac, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there
for a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will
tell you of."
022:003 Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey,
and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son.
He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up,
and went to the place of which God had told him.
022:004 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw
the place far off.
022:005 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey.
The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come
back to you."
022:006 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on
Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife.
They both went together.
022:007 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, "My father?"
He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire
and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
022:008 Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering,
my son." So they both went together.
022:009 They came to the place which God had told him of.
Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order,
bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
022:010 Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to
kill his son.
022:011 The angel of Yahweh called to him out of the sky, and said,
"Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."
022:012 He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him.
For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld