God tempted Abraham and said to him:
- Abraham!
He said:
- Here I am.
God said:
- Take your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac; and go to the land of Moriah and there offer him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.
Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took with him two of his servants and Isaac his son; He chopped wood for the burnt offering, and got up and went to the place that God had told him about.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
And Abraham said to his servants:
“You stay here with the donkey, and my son and I will go there and worship, and return to you.”
And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it on Isaac his son; He took the fire and the knife in his hands, and they both went together. And Isaac began to speak to Abraham his father, and said:
- My father!
He answered:
- Here I am, my son.
He said:
“Here is the fire and the wood, where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Abraham said:
“God will provide for Himself a lamb for the burnt offering, my son.”
And they both walked on together.
And they came to the place that God had told him about; And Abraham built an altar there, laid out the wood, and, having bound his son Isaac, laid him on the altar on top of the wood.
And Abraham stretched out his hand and took a knife to kill his son. But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said:
- Abraham! Abraham!
He said:
- Here I am.
The angel said:
“Do not raise your hand against the boy and do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear God and have not spared your son, your only son, for Me.”
And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw: and behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of Isaac his son. And Abraham called the name of that place: Jehovah-jireh (the Lord will provide). Therefore, even now it is said: on the mountain of Jehovah it will be provided.
And the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven and said:
“I swear by me,” says the Lord, that since you did this deed and did not withhold your son, your only son, for Me, then I will bless you with blessing and multiply I will multiply your seed like the stars of heaven and like the sand on the seashore; and your seed will take possession of the cities of their enemies; and through your seed all the nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed my voice.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru