Popular Bible Verses from B'resheet (Gen) 22

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Avraham called the place ADONAI Yir’eh [ADONAI will see (to it), ADONAI provides] — as it is said to this day, “On the mountain ADONAI is seen.”

He said, “Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Yitz’chak; and go to the land of Moriyah. There you are to offer him as a burnt offering on a mountain that I will point out to you.”

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy! Don’t do anything to him! For now I know that you are a man who fears God, because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Avraham replied, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son”; and they both went on together.

I will most certainly bless you; and I will most certainly increase your descendants to as many as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the cities of their enemies, and by your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed — because you obeyed my order.”

(vii) After these things, God tested Avraham. He said to him, “Avraham!” and he answered, “Here I am.”

But the angel of ADONAI called to him out of heaven: “Avraham? Avraham!” He answered, “Here I am.”

The angel of ADONAI called to Avraham a second time out of heaven. He said, “I have sworn by myself — says ADONAI — that because you have done this, because you haven’t withheld your son, your only son

They came to the place God had told him about; and Avraham built the altar there, set the wood in order, bound Yitz’chak his son and laid him on the altar, on the wood.