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Then Avraham put out his hand and took the knife to kill his son.
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But the angel of ADONAI called to him out of heaven: "Avraham? Avraham!"He answered, "Here I am."
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He said, "Don't lay your hand on the boy! Don't do anything to him! For now I know that you are a man who fears God, because you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me."
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Avraham raised his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. Avraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
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Avraham called the place ADONAI Yir'eh [ADONAI will see (to it), ADONAI provides] -as it is said to this day, "On the mountain ADONAI is seen."
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The angel of ADONAI called to Avraham a second time out of heaven.
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He said, "I have sworn by myself - says ADONAI- that because you have done this, because you haven't withheld your son, your only son,
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I will most certainly bless you; and I will most certainly increase your descendants to as many as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the cities of their enemies,
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and by your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed - because you obeyed my order."
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So Avraham returned to his young men. They got up and went together to Be'er-Sheva, and Avraham settled in Be'er-Sheva.
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Afterwards, Avraham was told, "Milkah too has borne children, to your brother Nachor -