8. “My son,” Abraham answered, “God will provide the sheep for the burnt offering.” Then the two walked on together.
9. When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he bound his son Isaac, and put him on top of the wood on the altar.
10. Then Abraham reached out and took the knife to slaughter his son.
11. But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
12. “Do not lay your hand on the boy,” said the angel. “Do not do the least thing to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you did not withhold from me your son, your only one.”
13. Abraham looked up and saw a single ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14. Abraham named that place Yahweh-yireh; hence people today say, “On the mountain the Lord will provide.”
15. A second time the angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven
16. and said: “I swear by my very self—oracle of the Lord—that because you acted as you did in not withholding from me your son, your only one,
17. I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,
18. and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing, because you obeyed my command.”
19. Abraham then returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer-sheba, where Abraham lived.
20. Some time afterward, the news came to Abraham: “Milcah too has borne sons to your brother Nahor:
21. Uz, his firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel the father of Aram,
22. Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
23. Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
24. His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore children: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.