1 After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"
He said, "Here I am."
2 He said, "Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of."
3 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. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. 5 Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you." 6 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. 7 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?"
8 Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together. 9 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. 10 Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
11 Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!"
He said, "Here I am."
12 He said, "Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 Abraham called the name of that place "Yahweh Will Provide". As it is said to this day, "On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided."
15 Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, 16 and said, "‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies. 18 All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’"
19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
20 After these things, Abraham was told, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children 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, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
1 N hierdie dinge het God Abraham op die proef gestel en aan hom gesê: Abraham! En hy antwoord: Hier is ek!
2 Toe sê Hy: Neem jou seun, jou enigste, wat jy liefhet, Isak, en gaan na die land Mor¡a en offer hom daar as brandoffer op een van die berge wat Ek jou sal aanwys.
3 Daarop het Abraham die môre vroeg klaargemaak en sy esel opgesaal en twee van sy dienaars en sy seun Isak saam met hom geneem; en hy het hout gekloof vir 'n brandoffer en opgestaan en na die plek gegaan wat God hom aangewys het.
4 Op die derde dag toe slaan Abraham sy oë op en sien die plek van ver af.
5 En Abraham sê aan sy dienaars: Bly julle hier met die esel; ek en die seun wil daarheen gaan om te aanbid en dan na julle terugkom.
6 En Abraham het die hout vir die brandoffer geneem en dit op sy seun Isak gesit, en die vuur en die mes in sy hand geneem. So het hulle twee dan saam geloop.
7 Toe spreek Isak met sy vader Abraham en sê: My vader! En hy antwoord: Hier is ek, my seun! En hy sê: Hier is die vuur en die hout, maar waar is die lam vir 'n brandoffer?
8 En Abraham antwoord: God sal vir Homself die lam vir 'n brandoffer voorsien, my seun. So het hulle twee dan saam geloop.
9 Toe hulle kom op die plek wat God hom aangewys het, het Abraham daar die altaar gebou en die hout reggelê; daarna het hy sy seun Isak gebind en hom op die altaar bo-op die hout gesit.
10 Toe steek Abraham sy hand uit en neem die mes om sy seun te slag.
11 Maar die Engel van die HERE het na hom van die hemel af geroep en gesê: Abraham, Abraham! En hy antwoord: Hier is ek!
12 En Hy sê: Moenie jou hand na die seun uitsteek nie, en doen hom niks nie; want nou weet Ek dat jy God vrees en jou seun, jou enigste, van My nie teruggehou het nie.
13 En toe Abraham sy oë opslaan, sien hy meteens 'n ram wat agter in die bos met sy horings vasgeraak het. En Abraham het gegaan en die ram geneem en dit as brandoffer in die plek van sy seun geoffer.
14 En Abraham het die plek genoem: Die HERE sal voorsien! Sodat vandag nog gesê word: Op die berg van die HERE sal dit voorsien word.
15 Toe roep die Engel van die HERE vir die tweede keer na Abraham van die hemel af
16 en sê: Ek sweer by Myself, spreek die HERE, omdat jy dit gedoen het en jou seun, jou enigste, nie teruggehou het nie,
17 dat Ek jou ryklik sal seën en jou nageslag grootliks sal vermeerder soos die sterre van die hemel en soos die sand wat aan die seestrand is; en jou nageslag sal die poort van sy vyande in besit neem.
18 En in jou nageslag sal al die nasies van die aarde geseën word, omdat jy na my stem geluister het.
19 En Abraham het na sy dienaars teruggekeer; en hulle het klaargemaak en saam na Bers,ba gegaan. En Abraham het in Bers,ba bly woon.
20 N hierdie dinge het hulle aan Abraham berig gebring en gesê: Kyk, Milka het ook vir jou broer Nahor seuns gebaar:
21 Us, sy eersgeborene, en Bus, sy broer, en K,muel, die vader van Aram,
22 ook Kesed en Haso en Pildas en Jidlaf en B,tuel.
24 En sy byvrou met die naam van ReÂma, sy het ook Tebag en Gaham en Tahas en M äga gebaar.