Genesis 22:5-15

5 He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.”
6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,
7 Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.
9 When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time

Cross References 25

  • 1. Exodus 24:14
  • 2. John 19:17
  • 3. ver 10; Judges 19:29
  • 4. Exodus 29:38-42; Leviticus 1:10; Revelation 13:8
  • 5. ver 14
  • 6. ver 13; S John 1:29
  • 7. ver 2
  • 8. S Genesis 4:26; S Genesis 8:20
  • 9. Leviticus 1:7; 1 Kings 18:33
  • 10. Hebrews 11:17-19; James 2:21
  • 11. S ver 6
  • 12. ver 3; S Genesis 18:19
  • 13. S Genesis 16:7
  • 14. S Genesis 21:17
  • 15. Genesis 46:2
  • 16. S ver 1
  • 17. S Genesis 18:19; Genesis 42:18; Exodus 18:21; 1 Samuel 15:22; Job 1:1; Job 37:24; Proverbs 8:13; James 2:21-22
  • 18. S ver 2; John 3:16; 1 John 4:9
  • 19. S ver 8
  • 20. S Genesis 8:20; Romans 8:32
  • 21. Exodus 17:15; Judges 6:24
  • 22. Isaiah 30:29
  • 23. ver 8
  • 24. S Genesis 16:7
  • 25. S Genesis 21:17

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text "a ram behind him"
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