Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
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 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 picked up the knife to kill him.
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Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay 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 out to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
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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“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 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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Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it 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 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,
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The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time
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, “I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that 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 make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their 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 through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.”
19 Abraham went back to his servants, and they went together to Beersheba, where Abraham settled.
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Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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