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1Some years later God decided to test Abraham, so he spoke to him.[#Ws 10.5; Si 44.20; 4 Macc 7.13,14; 13.12; He 11.17-19.]
Abraham answered, “Here I am, Lord .”
2The Lord said, “Go get Isaac, your only son, the one you dearly love! Take him to the land of Moriah, and I will show you a mountain where you must sacrifice him to me on the fires of an altar.”[#2 Ch 3.1.]
3So Abraham got up early the next morning and chopped wood for the fire. He put a saddle on his donkey and set out with Isaac and two servants for the place where God had told him to go.
4Three days later Abraham looked off in the distance and saw the place.
5He told his servants, “Stay here with the donkey, while my son and I go over there to worship. We will come back.”
6Abraham put the wood on Isaac's shoulder, but he carried the hot coals and the knife. As the two of them walked along,
7-8Isaac said, “Father, we have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?”
“My son,” Abraham answered, “God will provide the lamb.”
The two of them walked on, and
9when they reached the place that God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and placed the wood on it. Next, he tied up his son and put him on the wood.[#Jas 2.21.]
10He then took the knife and got ready to kill his son.[#4 Macc 16.20.]
11But the Lord 's angel shouted from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am!” he answered.
12“Don't hurt the boy or harm him in any way!” the angel said. “Now I know that you truly obey God, because you were willing to offer him your only son.”
13Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in the bushes. So he took the ram and sacrificed it instead of his son.
14Abraham named that place “The Lord Will Provide.” And even now people say, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”[#22.14 Or “The Will Be Seen … the will be seen” or “It (a ram) Will Be Seen … it (a ram) will be seen.”]
15The Lord 's angel called out from heaven a second time:
19Abraham and Isaac went back to the servants who had come with him, and they returned to Abraham's home in Beersheba.
20-21-22-23Abraham's brother Nahor had married Milcah, and Abraham was later told that they had eight sons. Uz was their first-born; Buz was next, and then there was Kemuel the father of Aram; their other five sons were: Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel the father of Rebekah.
24Nahor also had another wife. Her name was Reumah, and she had four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.[#22.24 This translates a Hebrew word for a woman who was legally bound to a man, but without the full privileges of a wife.]