Lexham English Bible

Genesis 22:4-14 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

4. On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place at a distance.

5. And Abraham said to his servants, “You stay here with the donkey, and I and the boy will go up there. We will worship, then we will return to you.”

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

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

8. And Abraham said, “God will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went together.

9. And they came to the place that God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood. Then he bound Isaac his son and placed him on the altar atop the wood.

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

11. And the angel of Yahweh called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham! Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”

12. And he said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the boy; do not do anything to him. For now I know that you are one who fears God, since you have not withheld your son, your only child, from me.”

13. And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, a ram was caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

14. And Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh will provide,” for which reason it is said today, “on the mountain of Yahweh it shall be provided.”