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1 After these things God tested Abraham. He said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
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Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.
2 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 that I shall show you."
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And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.
3 So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and his son Isaac; he cut the wood for the burnt offering, and set out and went to the place in the distance that God had shown him.
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And Abraham got up early in the morning, and made ready his ass, and took with him two of his young men and Isaac, his son, and after the wood for the burned offering had been cut, he went on his way to the place of which God had given him word.
4 On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place far away.
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And on the third day, Abraham, lifting up his eyes, saw the place a long way off.
5 Then Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the boy and I will go over there; we will worship, and then we will come back to you."
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Then he said to his young men, Keep here with the ass; and I and the boy will go on and give worship and come back again to you.
6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.
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And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.
7 Isaac said to his father Abraham, "Father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." He said, "The fire and the wood are here, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
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Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?
8 Abraham said, "God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together.
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And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.
9 When they came to the place that God had shown him, Abraham built an altar there and laid the wood in order. He bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
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And they came to the place of which God had given him knowledge; and there Abraham made the altar and put the wood in place on it, and having made tight the bands round Isaac his son, he put him on the wood on the altar.
10 Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
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And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.
11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am."
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But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
12 He said, "Do not lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
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And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.
13 And Abraham looked up and saw a ram, caught in a thicket by its horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
14 So Abraham called that place "The Lord will provide"; as it is said to this day, "On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided."
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And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.
15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
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And the voice of the angel of the Lord came to Abraham a second time from heaven,
16 and said, "By myself I have sworn, says the Lord: Because you have done this, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
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Saying, I have taken an oath by my name, says the Lord, because you have done this and have not kept back from me your dearly loved only son,
17 I will indeed bless you, and I will make your offspring as numerous as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of their enemies,
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That I will certainly give you my blessing, and your seed will be increased like the stars of heaven and the sand by the seaside; your seed will take the land of those who are against them;
18 and by your offspring shall all the nations of the earth gain blessing for themselves, because you have obeyed my voice."
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And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.
19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they arose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham lived at Beer-sheba.
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Then Abraham went back to his young men and they went together to Beer-sheba, the place where Abraham was living.
20 Now after these things it was told Abraham, "Milcah also has borne children, to your brother Nahor:
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After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;
21 Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
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Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,
22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."
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And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.
23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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Bethuel was the father of Rebekah: these eight were the children of Milcah and Nahor, Abraham's brother.
24 Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.
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