¹ Dopo queste cose, avvenne che Iddio provò Abrahamo, e gli disse: "Abrahamo!" Ed egli rispose: "Eccomi".

² E Dio disse: "Prendi ora il tuo figliuolo, il tuo unico, colui che ami, Isacco, e vattene nel paese di Moriah, e offrilo quivi in olocausto sopra uno dei monti che ti dirò".

³ E Abrahamo levatosi la mattina di buon’ora, mise il basto al suo asino, prese con sé due de’ suoi servitori e Isacco suo figliuolo, spaccò delle legna per l’olocausto, poi partì per andare al luogo che Dio gli avea detto.

⁴ Il terzo giorno, Abrahamo alzò gli occhi e vide da lontano il luogo.

⁵ E Abrahamo disse ai suoi servitori: "Rimanete qui con l’asino; io ed il ragazzo andremo fin colà e adoreremo; poi torneremo a voi".

⁶ E Abrahamo prese le legna per l’olocausto e le pose addosso a Isacco suo figliuolo; poi prese in mano sua il fuoco e il coltello, e tutti e due s’incamminarono assieme.

⁷ E Isacco parlò ad Abrahamo suo padre e disse: "padre mio!" Abrahamo rispose: "Eccomi qui, figlio mio". E Isacco: "Ecco il fuoco e le legna; ma dov’è l’agnello per l’olocausto?"

⁸ Abrahamo rispose: "Figliuol mio, Iddio se lo provvederà l’agnello per l’olocausto". E camminarono ambedue assieme.

⁹ E giunsero al luogo che Dio gli avea detto, e Abrahamo edificò quivi l’altare, e vi accomodò la legna; legò Isacco suo figliuolo, e lo mise sull’altare, sopra la legna.

¹⁰ E Abrahamo stese la mano e prese il coltello per scannare il suo figliuolo.

¹¹ Ma l’angelo dell’Eterno gli gridò dal cielo e disse: "Abrahamo, Abrahamo".

¹² E quegli rispose: "Eccomi". E l’angelo: "Non metter la mano addosso al ragazzo, e non gli fare alcun male; poiché ora so che tu temi Iddio, giacché non m’hai rifiutato il tuo figliuolo, l’unico tuo".

¹³ E Abrahamo alzò gli occhi, guardò, ed ecco dietro a sé un montone, preso per le corna in un cespuglio. E Abrahamo andò, prese il montone, e l’offerse in olocausto invece del suo figliuolo.

¹⁴ E Abrahamo pose nome a quel luogo Iehovah-jireh. Per questo si dice oggi: "Al monte dell’Eterno sarà provveduto".

¹⁵ L’angelo dell’Eterno chiamò dal cielo Abrahamo una seconda volta, e disse:

¹⁶ "Io giuro per me stesso, dice l’Eterno, che, siccome tu hai fatto questo e non m’hai rifiutato il tuo figliuolo, l’unico tuo,

¹⁷ io certo ti benedirò e moltiplicherò la tua progenie come le stelle del cielo e come la rena ch’è sul lido del mare; e la tua progenie possederà la porta de’ suoi nemici.

¹⁸ E tutte le nazioni della terra saranno benedette nella tua progenie, perché tu hai ubbidito alla mia voce".

¹⁹ Poi Abrahamo se ne tornò ai suoi servitori; e si levarono, e se n’andarono insieme a Beer-Sceba. E Abrahamo dimorò a Beer-Sceba.

²⁰ Dopo queste cose avvenne che fu riferito ad Abrahamo questo: "Ecco Milca ha partorito anch’ella de’ figliuoli a Nahor, tuo fratello:

²¹ Uz, suo primogenito, Buz suo fratello, Kemuel padre d’Aram,

²² Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaf e Bethuel".

²³ E Bethuel generò Rebecca. Questi otto Milca partorì a Nahor, fratello d’Abrahamo.

²⁴ E la concubina di lui, che si chiamava Reumah, partorì anch’essa Thebah, Gaam, Tahash e Maaca.

¹ The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their vast array.

² On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

³ God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

⁴ This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens.

⁵ No plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,

⁶ but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole surface of the ground.

⁷ Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

⁸ Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

⁹ Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰ A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became four heads.

¹¹ The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

¹² and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin and the onyx stone.

¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush.

¹⁴ The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

¹⁵ Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

¹⁶ Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."

¹⁸ Yahweh God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

¹⁹ Out of the ground Yahweh God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

²⁰ The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper suitable for him.

²¹ Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

²² He made the rib, which Yahweh God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

²³ The man said, "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh. She will be called 'woman,' because she was taken out of man."

²⁴ Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and will join with his wife, and they will be one flesh.

²⁵ They were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.