Gênesis 22

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".*22:14 or, Yahweh-Jireh, or, Yahweh-Seeing 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.

Te Whakamātau o Āperahama

1 Nā, i muri i ēnei mea ka whakamātau te Atua i a Āperahama, ka mea ki a ia, "E Āperahama!"

Ka mea ia, "Tēnei ahau."

2 Nā, ka mea ia, "Kawea atu tāu tamaiti, tāu huatahi, tāu e aroha nei, a Īhaka, ā, haere ki te whenua o Moria. Ka whakaeke i a ia ki reira hei tahunga tinana ki runga ki tētahi o ngā maunga e kōrero ai ahau ki a koe."

3 Nā, ka maranga wawe a Āperahama i te ata, ā, whakanohoia ana e ia tana kāihe, ā, mauria ana e ia ētahi o āna taitamariki hei hoa mōna, me Īhaka hoki, me tāna tama, ā, tātāngia ana e ia ngā wahie mō te tahunga tinana, ā, whakatika ana, haere ana ki te wāhi i kōrero ai te Atua ki a ia. 4 I te rā tuatoru ka maranga ngā kanohi o Āperahama, ā, ka kite ia i taua wāhi i tawhiti. 5 Nā, ka mea a Āperahama ki āna taitamariki, "E noho kōrua i konei ki te kāihe. Ka haere māua ko te tamaiti nei ki kō, ki te koropiko, ka hoki mai ai ki a kōrua."

6 Nā, ka tango a Āperahama i te wahie mō te tahunga tinana, ā, whakawahā ana e ia ki a Īhaka, ki tāna tama, ā, ka mauria e ia he ahi i tōna ringa me tētahi māripi. Ā, haere tahi ana rāua. 7 Nā, ka kōrero a Īhaka ki a Āperahama, ki tōna pāpā, ka mea, "E tōku matua!"

Ka mea ia, "Tēnei ahau, e tāku tama."

Ā, ka mea ia, "Nanā, ko te ahi me ngā wahie; kei hea ia te reme hei tahunga tinana?"

8 Ka mea a Āperahama, "Kei te Atua te whakaaro, e tāku tamaiti, ki tētahi reme māna hei tahunga tinana." Nā, ka haere tahi rāua.

9 Ā, ka tae rāua ki te wāhi i kōrero ai te Atua ki a ia; ā, ka hangā e Āperahama tētahi āta ki reira, ā, whakapapatia ana e ia ngā wahie, nā, ka herea e ia a Īhaka, tāna tama, whakatakotoria iho ki te āta, ki runga ki ngā wahie. 10 Nā, ka totoro atu te ringa o Āperahama, ka mau ki te māripi hei patu mō tāna tama. 11 Nā, ko te karangatanga mai a te anahera a Ihowā ki a ia i runga i te rangi, ka mea, "E Āperahama, e Āperahama!"

Ka mea ia, "Tēnei ahau."

12 Nā, ka mea ia, "Kaua e totoro tōu ringa ki te tamaiti, kaua anō hoki tētahi mea e meatia ki a ia. Kātahi hoki ahau ka mātau e wehi ana koe i te Atua, i a koe kīhai nei i kaiponu i tāu tamaiti, i tāu huatahi, i ahau."

13 Ā, ka maranga ake ngā kanohi o Āperahama, nā, ka kite ia ko tētahi hipi toa i muri i a ia, e mau ana ōna haona i roto i te puia rākau. Nā, ka haere a Āperahama, ka hopu i te hipi rā, ā, whakaekea ana e ia hei tahunga tinana, hei whakarite mō tāna tama. 14 Nā, ka huaina e Āperahama te ingoa o taua wāhi ko Ihowātire. E kōrerotia nei ināianei, "Kei te maunga o Ihowā te kitea ai."

15 Nā, ka karanga anō te anahera a Ihowā ki a Āperahama i te rangi, 16 ka mea, "Kua waiho e ahau ko ahau anō hei oati, e ai tā Ihowā, mōu i mea i tēnei mea, mōu anō hoki kīhai i kaiponu i tāu tama, i tāu huatahi, 17 nā, ka manaakitia rawatia koe e ahau, ā, ka whakanuia rawatia e ahau ōu uri kia pērā me ngā whetū o te rangi, me te onepū hoki i te tahatika o te moana. Ā, ka riro i ōu uri te kūwaha o ōna hoariri, 18 mā tōu uri anō hoki ka manaakitia ai ngā iwi katoa o te whenua; mōu i whakarongo ki tōku reo."

19 Nā, ka hoki a Āperahama ki āna taitamariki, ā, whakatika ana rātou, haere tahi ana ki Peerehepa; ā, ka noho a Āperahama ki Peerehepa.

Ngā Tamariki o Nahora

20 Nā, i muri i ēnei mea ka kōrerotia ki a Āperahama, ka meatia, "Nanā, kua whānau tamariki anō a Mireka rāua ko Nahora, ko tōu teina: 21 ko Hutu, ko tāna mātāmua, rāua ko Putu, ko tōna teina, me Kemuera hoki, matua o Arame, 22 rātou ko Kehere, ko Hato, ko Piretata, ko Irirapa, ko Petuere." 23 Ā, whānau ake tā Petuere ko Ripeka. Ko ēnei tokowaru te whānau a Mireka rāua ko Nahora, teina o Āperahama. 24 Ā, ko tāna wahine iti, tōna ingoa nei ko Reuma, i whānau anō āna: ko Tepa rātou ko Kahama, ko Tahaha, ko Maaka.