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Genesis 22:3
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whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of 5The LORD's messenger called out to Moriah. Offer him up as an entirely burned Abraham from heaven a second time 16 and offering there on one of the mountains that I said, "I give my word as the LORD that bewill show you.” 3Abraham got up early in the cause you did this and didn't hold back your morning, harnessed his donkey, and took son, your only son, "I will bless you richly two of his young men with him, together and I will give you countless descendants, with his son Isaac. He split the wood for the as many as the stars in the sky and as the entirely burned offering, set out, and went grains of sand on the seashore. They will to the place God had described to him. conquer their enemies' cities. 18 All the na
"On the third day, Abraham looked up tions of the earth will be blessed because of and saw the place at a distance. “Abraham your descendants, because you obeyed me.” said to his servants, “Stay here with the 19 After Abraham returned to the young donkey. The boy and I will walk up there, men, they got up and went to Beer-sheba worship, and then come back to you." where Abraham lived.
Abraham took the wood for the entirely burned offering and laid it on his son Isaac. Abraham's nephews in Syria He took the fire and the knife in his hand, and 20 After these events, Abraham was told: the two of them walked on together. 'Isaac “Milcah has now also given birth to sons for said to his father Abraham, “My father?" your brother Nahor. 21 They are Uz his oldest
Abraham said, “I'm here, my son." son, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of
Isaac said, “Here is the fire and the wood, Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and but where is the lamb for the entirely burned Bethuel.” 23 Bethuel became the father of Reoffering?"
bekah. These are the eight Milcah bore for Abraham said, “The lamb for the entirely Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24His secondary burned offering? God will see to it, my son." wife's name was Reumah, and she gave birth The two of them walked on together. to Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
'They arrived at the place God had described to him. Abraham built an altar there Sarah's death and burial site and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his Sarah lived to be 127 years old; this son Isaac and laid him on the altar on top L w as how long she lived. She died in of the wood. Then Abraham stretched out Kiriath-arba, that is, in Hebron, in the land his hand and took the knife to kill his son of Canaan; and Abraham cried out in grief as a sacrifice. "But the LORD's messenger and wept for Sarah. 'After he got up from called out to Abraham from heaven, “Abra- embracing his deceased wife, he spoke with ham? Abraham?”
the Hittites: 4"I am an immigrant and a Abraham said, “I'm here."
temporary resident with you. Give me some 12 The messenger said, “Don't stretch property for a burial plot among you so that out your hand against the young man, and I can bury my deceased wife near me." don't do anything to him. I now know that The Hittites responded to Abraham, you revere God and didn't hold back your 6“Listen to us, Sir. You are an eminent man son, your only son, from me.” 13 Abraham of God among us. Bury your dead in one of looked up and saw a single ram' caught by our own select burial sites. None of us will its horns in the dense underbrush. Abra- keep our own burial plots from you to bury ham went over, took the ram, and offered it your dead." as an entirely burned offering instead of his Abraham rose, bowed to the local citison. Abraham named that place “the LORD zens the Hittites, 8and spoke with them: “If sees." That is the reason people today say, you yourselves allow me to bury my dead "On this mountain the LORD is seen." near me, listen to me and ask Ephron, Zo
'Or God will see; or God will provide 'LXX, Sam, Syr, Tg; MT a ram behind or the LORD is seen; or the LORD O provides for the LORD sees; or on the LORD's mountain, it will be provided