Genesis 22 (NET)

Genesis 22:1¹Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham replied.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:2²God said, “Take your son—your only son, whom you love, Isaac —and go to the land of Moriah! Offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will indicate to you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:3³Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:4⁴On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:5⁵So he said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:6⁶Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:7⁷Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father?” “What is it, my son?” he replied. “Here is the fire and the wood,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:8⁸“God will provide for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:9⁹When they came to the place God had told him about, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he tied up his son Isaac and placed him on the altar on top of the wood.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:10¹⁰Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:11¹¹But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:12¹²“Do not harm the boy!” the angel said. “Do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God because you did not withhold your son, your only son, from me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:13¹³Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:14¹⁴And Abraham called the name of that place “The Lord provides.” It is said to this day, “In the mountain of the Lord provision will be made.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:15¹⁵The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heavenCopy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:16¹⁶and said, “I solemnly swear by my own name, decrees the Lord, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:17¹⁷I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:18¹⁸Because you have obeyed me, all the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:19¹⁹Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:20²⁰After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor—Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:21²¹Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:22²²Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:23²³(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s

Genesis 22:24²⁴His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children—Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’s