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On the third day Avraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
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Avraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go yonder. We will worship, and come back to you.
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Avraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Yitzchak his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.
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Yitzchak spoke to Avraham his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
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Avraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
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They came to the place which God had told him of. Avraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Yitzchak his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.
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Avraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
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The angel of the LORD called to him out of the sky, and said, "Avraham, Avraham!" He said, "Here I am."
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He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy, neither do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
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Avraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Avraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
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Avraham called the name of that place Yahweh-jireh. As it is said to this day, "In the LORD's mountain it will be provided.