Genesis 22:1-8 ▼

1 Sometime later, God tested Abraham. He called out to him, |Abraham!| |Here I am!| he answered.

2 God said, |Please take your son, your unique son whom you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering there on one of the mountains that I will point out to you.|

3 So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his male servants with him, along with his son Isaac. He cut the wood for the burnt offering and set out to go to the place about which God had spoken to him.

4 On the third day he looked ahead and saw the place from a distance.

5 Abraham ordered his two servants, |Both of you are to stay here with the donkey. Now as for the youth and me, we'll go up there, we'll worship, and then we'll return to you.|

6 Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac. Abraham carried the fire and the knife. And so the two of them went on together.

7 Isaac addressed his father Abraham: |My father!| |I'm here, my son,| Abraham replied. Isaac asked, |The fire and the wood are here, but where's the lamb for the burnt offering?|

8 Abraham answered, |God will provide himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.| The two of them went on together