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- AFTER THESE events, God tested and proved Abraham and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here I am.
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- [God] said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah; and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I will tell you.
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- So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and then began the trip to the place of which God had told him.
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- On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
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- And Abraham said to his servants, Settle down and stay here with the donkey, and I and the young man will go yonder and worship and come again to you.
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- Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on [the shoulders of] Isaac his son, and he took the fire (the firepot) in his own hand, and a knife; and the two of them went on together.
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- And Isaac said to Abraham, My father! And he said, Here I am, my son. [Isaac] said, See, here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt sacrifice?
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- Abraham said, My son, God Himself will provide a lamb for the burnt offering. So the two went on together.
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- When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there; then he laid the wood in order and bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood. [Matt. 10:37.]
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- And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took hold of the knife to slay his son. [Heb. 11:17-19.]
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- But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, Abraham, Abraham! He answered, Here I am.
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- And He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear and revere God, since you have not held back from Me or begrudged giving Me your son, your only son.
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- Then Abraham looked up and glanced around, and behold, behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up for a burnt offering and an ascending sacrifice instead of his son!
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- So Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide. And it is said to this day, On the mount of the Lord it will be provided.
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- The Angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time
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- And said, I have sworn by Myself, says the Lord, that since you have done this and have not withheld [from Me] or begrudged [giving Me] your son, your only son,
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- In blessing I will bless you and in multiplying I will multiply your descendants like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore. And your Seed (Heir) will possess the gate of His enemies, [Heb. 6:13, 14; 11:12.]
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- And in your Seed [Christ] shall all the nations of the earth be blessed and [by Him] bless themselves, because you have heard and obeyed My voice. [Gen. 12:2-3; 13:16; 22:18; 26:4; 28:14; Acts 3:25, 26; Gal. 3:16.]
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- So Abraham returned to his servants, and they rose up and went with him to Beersheba; there Abraham lived.
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- Now after these things, it was told Abraham, Milcah has also borne children to your brother Nahor:
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- Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,
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- Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
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- Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
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- And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
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