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Genesis 22 💬 📚 📜 📕 ↷
Offering of Isaac
1 WHICH things being done, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. But he answered: Here I am.
2 He said to him: Take thy only begotten son, whom thou lovest, Isaac, and go into the Land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.
3 Therefore Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: taking with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.
4 And the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place a far off:
5 and he said to his young men: Tarry you here with the ass: I and the boy going with speed as far as yonder, after we have adored will return to you.
6 He took also the wood of the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and himself carried in his hand fire and a sword. And as they went on together,
7 Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou son? Behold, saith he, fire & wood; where is the victim of the holocaust?
8 And Abraham said: God will provide unto himself the victim of the holocaust, my son. They went on therefore together:
9 and they came to the place which God had shewed him, wherein he builded an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.
10 And he stretched forth his hand, and caught the sword, for to sacrifice his son.
LORD Provides the Sacrifice
11 And behold an Angel of our Lord from heaven cried, saying: Abraham, Abraham. Who answered: Here I am.
12 And he said to him: Stretch not forth thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now have I known that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thine only begotten son for my sake.
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