Good News Translation GNT
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1 Some time later God tested Abraham; he called to him, "Abraham!" And Abraham answered, "Yes, here I am!"
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After these things God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
2 "Take your son," God said, "your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me."
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He said, “Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”
3 Early the next morning Abraham cut some wood for the sacrifice, loaded his donkey, and took Isaac and two servants with him. They started out for the place that God had told him about.
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So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac. And he cut the wood for the burnt offering and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.
4 On the third day Abraham saw the place in the distance.
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On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
5 Then he said to the servants, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there and worship, and then we will come back to you."
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Then Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go over there and worship and come again to you.”
6 Abraham made Isaac carry the wood for the sacrifice, and he himself carried a knife and live coals for starting the fire. As they walked along together,
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And 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 they went both of them together.
7 Isaac spoke up, "Father!" He answered, "Yes, my son?" Isaac asked, "I see that you have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"
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And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”
8 Abraham answered, "God himself will provide one." And the two of them walked on together.
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Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they went both of them together.
9 When they came to the place which God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built the altar there and laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
10 Then he picked up the knife to kill him.
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Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, "Abraham, Abraham!" He answered, "Yes, here I am."
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But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” And he said, “Here I am.”
12 "Don't hurt the boy or do anything to him," he said. "Now I know that you honor and obey God, because you have not kept back your only son from him."
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He said, “Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
13 Abraham looked around and saw a ram caught in a bush by its horns. He went and got it and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him was a ram, caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
14 Abraham named that place "The Lord Provides." And even today people say, "On the Lord's mountain he provides."
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So Abraham called the name of that place, “The Lord will provide”; as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”
15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time,
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And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven
16 "I make a vow by my own name - the Lord is speaking - that I will richly bless you. Because you did this and did not keep back your only son from me,
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and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,
17 I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.
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I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,
18 All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants - all because you obeyed my command."
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and in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.”
19 Abraham went back to his servants, and they went together to Beersheba, where Abraham settled.
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So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived at Beersheba.
20 Some time later Abraham learned that Milcah had borne eight children to his brother Nahor:
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Now after these things it was told to Abraham, “Behold, Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:
21 Uz the first-born, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
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Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel,
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Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
23 Rebecca's father. Milcah bore these eight sons to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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(Bethuel fathered Rebekah.) These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.
24 Reumah, Nahor's concubine, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.