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 Depois disso, Deus provou Abraão, e disse-lhe: "Abraão!" "Eis-me aqui", respondeu ele.
2 Deus disse: "Toma teu filho, teu único filho a quem tanto amas, Isaac; e vai à terra de Moriá, onde tu o oferecerás em holocausto sobre um dos montes que eu te indicar."
3 No dia seguinte, pela manhã, Abraão selou o seu jumento. Tomou consigo dois servos e Isaac, seu filho, e, tendo cortado a lenha para o holocausto, partiu para o lugar que Deus lhe tinha indicado.
4 Ao terceiro dia, levantando os olhos, viu o lugar de longe.
5 "Ficai aqui com o jumento, disse ele aos seus servos; eu e o menino vamos até lá mais adiante para adorar, e depois voltaremos a vós."
6 Abraão tomou a lenha do holocausto e a pôs aos ombros de seu filho Isaac, levando ele mesmo nas mãos o fogo e a faca. E, enquanto os dois iam caminhando juntos,
7 Isaac disse ao seu pai: "Meu pai!" "Que há, meu filho?" Isaac continuou: "Temos aqui o fogo e a lenha, mas onde está a ovelha para o holocausto?"
8 "Deus, respondeu-lhe Abraão, providenciará ele mesmo uma ovelha para o holocausto, meu filho." E ambos, juntos, continuaram o seu caminho.
9 Quando chegaram ao lugar indicado por Deus, Abraão edificou um altar; colocou nele a lenha, e amarrou Isaac, seu filho, e o pôs sobre o altar em cima da lenha.
10 Depois, estendendo a mão, tomou a faca para imolar o seu filho.
11 O anjo do Senhor, porém, gritou-lhe do céu: "Abraão! Abraão!" "Eis-me aqui!"
12 "Não estendas a tua mão contra o menino, e não lhe faças nada. Agora eu sei que temes a Deus, pois não me recusaste teu próprio filho, teu filho único."
13 Abraão, levantando os olhos, viu atrás dele um cordeiro preso pelos chifres entre os espinhos; e, tomando-o, ofereceu-o em holocausto em lugar de seu filho.
14 Abraão chamou a este lugar Javé-yiré, de onde se diz até o dia de hoje: "Sobre o monte de Javé-Yiré."
15 Pela segunda vez chamou o anjo do Senhor a Abraão, do céu,
16 e disse-lhe: "Juro por mim mesmo, diz o Senhor: pois que fizeste isto, e não me recusaste teu filho, teu filho único, eu te abençoarei.
17 Multiplicarei a tua posteridade como as estrelas do céu, e como a areia na praia do mar. Ela possuirá a porta dos teus inimigos,
18 e todas as nações da terra desejarão ser benditas como ela, porque obedeceste à minha voz."
19 Abraão voltou então para os seus servos, e foram juntos para Bersabéia, onde fixou sua residência.
20 Depois desses acontecimentos, vieram dizer a Abraão: "Melca deu também filhos a Nacor, teu irmão:
21 Hus, o primogênito, Buz, seu irmão, Camuel, pai de Arão,
22 Cased, Azau, Feldas, Jedlaf e Batuel."
23 {Batuel foi o pai de Rebeca.} Estes são os oito filhos que Melca deu a Nacor, irmão de Abraão.
24 Sua concubina, chamada Reuma, teve também filhos: Tabée, Gaam, Taas e Maaca.