Genesis 22 (NET)

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Genesis 22:1¹Some time after these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham replied.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 11:17 Deut 8:2 Jas 2:21 Jas 1:12-14 1 Cor 10:13 1 Pet 1:7 Prov 17:3 Gen 22:11 Gen 22:7 Deut 8:16

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:16 Rom 8:32 Heb 11:17 1 John 4:9-10 Gen 17:19 Gen 22:12 Gen 22:16 2 Kgs 3:27 2 Chr 3:1 Gen 21:12

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 119:60 Matt 10:37 Luke 14:26 Eccl 9:10 Gal 1:16 Gen 17:23 Gen 21:14 Heb 11:17-19 Isa 26:3-4

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 11:19

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 19:17 1 Pet 2:24 Isa 53:6 Matt 8:17

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rom 8:15 Exod 12:3 Gen 4:2-4 Gen 8:20 John 18:11 Matt 26:39 Matt 26:42

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 1:36 John 1:29 Rev 5:12 Rev 13:8 Gen 18:14 Matt 19:26 Rev 7:14 1 Pet 1:19-20 2 Chr 25:9 Rev 5:6

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 2:21 Heb 11:17-19 Phil 2:7-8 1 Pet 2:24 Acts 8:32 Eph 5:2 Gal 3:13 Gen 12:7 Gen 22:2-4 Gen 8:20

Genesis 22:10¹⁰Then Abraham reached out his hand, took the knife, and prepared to slaughter his son.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 11:17-19 Jas 2:21-23

Genesis 22:11¹¹But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am!” he answered.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Exod 3:4 Gen 21:17 Gen 16:9-10 Gen 22:16 1 Sam 3:10 Acts 26:14 Acts 9:4 Gen 16:7 Gen 22:1 Gen 22:12

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 2:21-22 Jas 2:18 1 Sam 15:22 Matt 10:37-38 Rom 8:32 1 Cor 10:13 Gen 22:2 Matt 19:29 Eccl 12:13 Gen 26:5

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 10:13 2 Cor 1:9-10 Ps 40:6-8 1 Cor 5:7-8 1 Pet 1:19-20 Gen 22:8 Isa 30:21 Ps 89:19-20

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 22:13 Exod 17:15 Judg 6:24 Gen 22:8 Gen 16:13-14 Ps 22:4-5 1 Sam 7:12 1 Tim 3:16 2 Cor 1:8-10 Gen 28:19

Genesis 22:15¹⁵The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heavenCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 6:13-14 Luke 1:73 Ps 105:9 Jer 51:14 Jer 49:13 Rom 4:13-14 Isa 45:23 Gen 12:2 Amos 6:8

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 15:5 Gen 24:60 Jer 33:22 Gen 26:4 Gen 13:16 Num 24:17-19 Ps 2:8-9 Ps 72:8-9 Eph 1:3 Rev 11:15

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 Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 3:25 Gal 3:16 Gen 12:3 Gen 26:4-5 Gal 3:8-9 Gen 18:18 Jer 7:23 Ps 72:17 Eph 1:3 Gal 3:28-29

Genesis 22:19¹⁹Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 21:31 Josh 15:28 Judg 20:1

Genesis 22:20²⁰After these things Abraham was told, “Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor—Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 11:29 Gen 24:24 Gen 11:26 Gen 24:10 Gen 24:15 Gen 31:53 Prov 25:25

Genesis 22:21²¹Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 1:1 Gen 24:10 Job 32:2 Num 23:7 Ps 60:1-12

Genesis 22:22²²Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

Genesis 22:23²³(Now Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) These were the eight sons Milcah bore to Abraham’s brother Nahor.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:15 Gen 24:24 Gen 24:47 Gen 24:51 Gen 24:60 Gen 24:67 Gen 25:20 Gen 28:2 Gen 28:5 Rom 9:10

Genesis 22:24²⁴His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore him children—Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 16:3 Gen 25:6 Prov 15:25

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