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And it came to pass after these things, that God tried Abraham , and said to him, Abraham ! and he said , Here am I.
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And he said , Take now thy son , thine only [son ], whom thou lovest , Isaac , and get thee into the land of Moriah , and there offer him up for a burnt-offering on one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
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And Abraham rose early in the morning , and saddled his ass , and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son ; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went to the place that God had told him of.
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On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
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And Abraham said to his young men , Abide ye here with the ass ; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship , and come again to you.
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And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it on Isaac his son ; and he took the fire in his hand , and the knife , and they went both of them together.
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And Isaac spoke to Abraham his father , and said , My father ! And he said , Here am I, my son . And he said , Behold the fire and the wood ; but where is the sheep for a burnt-offering?
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And Abraham said , My son , God will provide himself with the sheep for a burnt-offering. And they went both of them together.
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And they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built the altar there, and piled the wood ; and he bound Isaac his son , and laid him on the altar upon the wood .
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And Abraham stretched out his hand , and took the knife to slaughter his son .
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And the Angel of Jehovah called to him from the heavens , and said , Abraham , Abraham ! And he said , Here am I.
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And he said , Stretch not out thy hand against the lad , neither do anything to him; for now I know that thou fearest God , and hast not withheld thy son , thine only [son ], from me.
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And Abraham lifted up his eyes , and looked, and behold, behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns ; and Abraham went and took the ram , and offered it up for a burnt-offering instead of his son .
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And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah -jireh; as it is said at the present day , On the mount of Jehovah will be provided.
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And the Angel of Jehovah called to Abraham from the heavens a second time,
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and said , By myself I swear , saith Jehovah , that, because thou hast done this, and hast not withheld thy son , thine only [son ],
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I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed , as the stars of heaven , and as the sand that is on the sea -shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies ;
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and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth bless themselves, because thou hast hearkened to my voice .
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And Abraham returned to his young men , and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
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And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham , saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne sons to thy brother Nahor :
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Uz his first-born , and Buz his brother , and Kemuel the father of Aram ,
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and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash , and Jidlaph , and Bethuel .
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(And Bethuel begot Rebecca .) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor , Abraham 's brother .
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And his concubine , named Reumah , she also bore Tebah , and Gaham , and Thahash, and Maacah .