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God Tests Abraham

Genesis 21: 1-7

1 Then the Lord took note of Sarah as He had said, and the Lord did for Sarah as He had promised. 
2  So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the appointed time of which God had spoken to him.
3  Abraham called the name of his son who was born to him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
4  Then Abraham circumcised his son Isaac when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.
5  Now Abraham was one hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
6  Sarah said, "God has made laughter for me; everyone who hears will laugh with me."
7  And she said "Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children?  Yet I have borne him a son in his old age."
8  The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

 

Genesis 22: 1-19

 

1  Now it came about that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" and he said "Here I am."

2  He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you."

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 wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

4  On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

5  Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there; and we will worship and return to you."

6  Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife.  So the two of them walked on together.

7  Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My Father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son."  And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"

8  Abraham said, "God will provide Himself with the lamb for the burnt offering, my son."  So the two of them walked on together.

9  Then they came to the place of which God had told him; and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

10 Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!"  And he said, "Here I am." 

12 He said, "Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him, for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only  son, from Me."

13 Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son.

14 Abraham called the name of that place "The Lord will provide," as it is said to this day. "In the mount of the Lord it will be provided."

15  Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven

16 and said, "By Myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only son.

17 indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed as the stars of the heavens and as the sand which is on the seashore, and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies.

18 In your seed all nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."

19 So Abraham returned to his young men and they arose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham lived at Beersheba.

 

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