1 After these events God put Abraham to the test. He said to him, "Abraham!" and he answered, "Here I am."
2 He said, "Take your son, please, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah; offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you of."
3 Early in the morning Abraham got up, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split wood for the burnt offering, and set out for the place God had told him of.
4 On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place in the distance.
5 Abraham said to his servants, "You stay here with the donkey; the boy and I will go on over there, worship, and come back to you."
6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac, while he took the fire and the knife in his own hand; and the two of them walked on together.
7 Isaac spoke to his father Abraham: "My father!" He answered, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
8 Abraham said, "God himself will see to the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them walked on together.
9 They came to the place God had told him of, and Abraham built the altar there, arranged the wood, bound his son Isaac, and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.
10 Then Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
11 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven: "Abraham, Abraham!" He said, "Here I am."
12 He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do nothing to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not held back your son, your only son, from me."
13 Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. Abraham went, took the ram, and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14 Abraham named that place "The LORD will provide," as it is said to this day, "On the mountain of the LORD it shall be provided."
15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time
16 and said, "By myself I swear, says the LORD: because you have done this and have not held back your son, your only son,
17 I will richly bless you and greatly multiply your seed, like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the shore of the sea; and your seed will possess the gate of his enemies.
18 And in your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you obeyed my voice."
19 Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beersheba; and Abraham stayed at Beersheba.
20 Some time after these events, Abraham was told, "Milcah too has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
21 Uz, his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
24 His concubine too, named Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.