1 Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
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.
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.
4 And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way 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.
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.
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?
8 And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: 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.
10 And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
11 But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
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.
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.
14 And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
15 And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,
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,
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;
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.
19 Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
20 After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
21 Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
22 And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.
23 Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
24 And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.
1 Mais tarde, Deus quis provar a fé e a obediência de Abraão.Abraão!, chamou Deus.Diz, Senhor; o que é?
2 Pega no teu filho, Isaque, o teu único filho, a quem tanto amas, vai à terra de Moriá e oferece-o lá em sacrifício, num dos montes que te hei-de indicar.
3 No dia seguinte, de manhã cedo, preparou o seu jumento para a viagem, assim como a lenha necessária para o sacrifício, e, na companhia do seu filho Isaque e de mais dois moços, seus criados, partiu para onde Deus lhe tinha dito. Ao terceiro dia de viagem Abraão viu de longe o lugar para onde se dirigia; e disse aos moços que iam com ele: Fiquem aqui com o animal, porque eu, mais o meu rapaz, vamos até ali para adorar, e logo regressaremos.
6 Abraão pôs a lenha do sacrifício às costas de Isaque, pegou no sílex para o fogo e no cutelo e prosseguiram juntos.
7 Pai, disse Isaque. Temos lenha, temos lume para o fogo, mas onde está o cordeiro para o sacrifício?
8 Deus já escolheu um cordeiro, meu filho. E continuaram juntos o caminho.
9 Quando chegaram ao local designado pelo Senhor, Abraão construiu um altar, pôs a lenha em ordem pronta a arder, amarrou Isaque, deitou-o no altar em cima da lenha, e pegou no cutelo a fim de sacrificar o seu filho. Mas nesse preciso momento o anjo do Senhor gritou-lhe, desde o céu: Abraão! Abraão! Que é Senhor!
12 Baixa a tua mão, não lhe faças mal algum. Porque já sei agora que respeitas Deus, a ponto de não me recusares nem sequer o teu único e querido filho!
13 Logo a seguir Abraão reparou num carneiro que estava por detrás deles, preso pelas hastes a um arbusto. Pegou então no animal e sacrificou-o sobre o altar, em lugar do filho.
14 Por isso aquele sítio ficou a ser conhecido por Jeová-proverá. E ainda hoje em dia existe entre o povo um ditado que diz: Lá na montanha, o Senhor há-de dar o necessário!
15 Então o anjo do Senhor chamou de novo Abraão, do céu, e disse-lhe:
16 Eu, o Senhor, juro por mim mesmo que por teres feito o que fizeste, por me teres obedecido, sem sequer me recusares até o teu próprio filho querido, te abençoarei com enormes bênçãos, multiplicarei os teus descendentes, que serão milhões sem conto, tal como as estrelas do céu, como os grãos da areia das praias; além de que virão a ser vitoriosos sobre os seus inimigos. Serão ainda um meio de bênção para todos os outros povos da terra. Tudo isto por me teres obedecido.
19 Abrahão voltou para os moços, os criados, que estavam à sua espera, e regressaram todos juntos a casa, a Berseba.
20 Depois destas coisas vieram anunciar a Abraão que Milca, a mulher do seu irmão Naor, tinha tido oito filhos: Uz o mais velho, Buz, Quemel pai de Aram, Quesede, Hazo, Pildas, Jidlafe e Betuel pai de Rebeca.
24 Teve ainda mais quatro filhos da sua concubina Reuma: Teba, Gaão, Taás e Maaca.