Genesis 22

1After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”Cross-references: Gen 22:7 · Gen 22:11 · Ex 3:4 · Ex 15:25 · Ex 16:4 · Deut 8:2 · +12 more

2He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”Cross-references: Gen 17:19 · Gen 21:12 · Gen 22:12 · Gen 22:16 · Judg 11:31 · Judg 11:39 · +8 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

3Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.Cross-references: Gen 17:23 · Gen 21:14 · Ps 119:60 · Eccl 9:10 · Isa 26:3 · Matt 10:37 · +5 more

4On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.Cross-references: Ex 5:3 · Ex 15:22 · Ex 19:11 · Ex 19:15 · Lev 7:17 · Num 10:33 · +11 more

5Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”Cross-references: Heb 11:19 · Heb 12:1

6Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.Cross-references: Isa 53:6 · Matt 8:17 · Luke 24:26 · John 19:17 · 1Pet 2:24

7Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”Cross-references: Gen 4:2 · Gen 8:20 · Ex 12:3 · Matt 26:39 · Matt 26:42 · John 18:11 · +1 more

8Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.Cross-references: Gen 18:14 · 2Chr 25:9 · Matt 19:26 · John 1:29 · John 1:36 · 1Pet 1:19 · +4 more

9They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.Cross-references: Gen 8:20 · Gen 12:7 · Gen 22:2 · Ps 118:27 · Isa 53:4 · Matt 21:1 · +12 more

10Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.Cross-references: Isa 53:6 · Heb 11:17 · James 2:21

11Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”Cross-references: Gen 16:7 · Gen 16:9 · Gen 21:17 · Gen 22:1 · Gen 22:12 · Gen 22:16 · +4 more

12He said, “Don’t 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.”Cross-references: Gen 20:11 · Gen 22:2 · Gen 26:5 · Gen 42:18 · Ex 20:20 · 1Sam 12:24 · +33 more

13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.Cross-references: Gen 22:8 · Ps 40:6 · Ps 89:19 · Isa 30:21 · 1Cor 5:7 · 1Cor 10:13 · +2 more

14Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”Cross-references: Gen 16:13 · Gen 22:8 · Gen 22:13 · Gen 28:19 · Gen 32:30 · Ex 17:15 · +10 more

15Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,

16and said, “‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Ps 105:9 · Isa 45:23 · Jer 49:13 · Jer 51:14 · Amos 6:8 · +3 more

17that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 13:16 · Gen 15:5 · Gen 17:6 · Gen 24:60 · Gen 26:4 · +23 more

18All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’”Cross-references: Gen 12:3 · Gen 18:18 · Gen 22:3 · Gen 22:10 · Gen 26:4 · 1Sam 2:30 · +10 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

19So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.Cross-references: Gen 21:31 · Josh 15:28 · Judg 20:1

20After these things, Abraham was told, “Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor:Cross-references: Gen 11:26 · Gen 11:29 · Gen 24:10 · Gen 24:15 · Gen 24:24 · Gen 31:53 · +1 more

21Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,Cross-references: Gen 24:10 · Num 23:7 · Job 1:1 · Job 32:2 · Ps 60:1

22Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”

23Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.Cross-references: Gen 24:15 · Gen 24:24 · Gen 24:47 · Gen 24:51 · Gen 24:60 · Gen 24:67 · +4 more

24His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.Cross-references: Gen 16:3 · Gen 25:6 · Prov 15:25