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Genesis - Chapter 22

	Gen 22:1	Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
	Gen 22:2	Then He said, "Take now your son, your only [son] Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."
	Gen 22:3	So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
	Gen 22:4	Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.
	Gen 22:5	And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the lad [fn] and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you."
	Gen 22:6	So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid [it] on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.
	Gen 22:7	But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where [is] the lamb for a burnt offering?"
	Gen 22:8	And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." So the two of them went together.
	Gen 22:9	Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
	Gen 22:10	And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
	Gen 22:11	But the Angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" So he said, "Here I am."
	Gen 22:12	And He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, 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."
	Gen 22:13	Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind [him was] a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
	Gen 22:14	And Abraham called the name of the place, The-LORD-Will-Provide; [fn] as it is said [to] this day, "In the Mount of the LORD it shall be provided."
	Gen 22:15	Then the Angel of the LORD called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,
	Gen 22:16	and said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the LORD, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only [son]--
	Gen 22:17	"blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which [is] on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.
	Gen 22:18	"In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."
	Gen 22:19	So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.
	Gen 22:20	Now it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, "Indeed Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
	Gen 22:21	"Huz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
	Gen 22:22	"Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
	Gen 22:23	And Bethuel begot Rebekah. [fn] These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
	Gen 22:24	His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah.

NKJV Footnotes:

(22:5) Or young man
(22:14) Hebrew YHWH Yireh
(22:23) Spelled Rebecca in Romans 9:10

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