3 Aamulla heti noustuaan Abraham satuloi aasin ja otti mukaansa kaksi palvelijaa sekä poikansa Iisakin. Pilkottuaan puita polttouhria varten hän lähti matkaan kohti paikkaa, jonne Jumala oli käskenyt hänen mennä.

4 Kolmantena päivänä Abraham näki paikan etäältä.

6 Abraham otti polttouhripuut ja antoi ne Iisakin kannettavaksi; hän itse otti tulen ja veitsen, ja sitten he jatkoivat yhdessä matkaa.

9 Kun he tulivat paikkaan, jonka Jumala oli Abraha- mille osoittanut, Abraham rakensi sinne alttarin ja latoi puut paikoilleen. Sitten hän sitoi poikansa Iisakin ja pani hänet alttarille puiden päälle.

10 Mutta kun Abraham tarttui veitseen uhratakseen poikansa,

13 Ja kun Abraham katsoi ympärilleen, hän huomasi oinaan, joka oli sarvistaan takertunut pensaikkoon. Abraham kävi hakemassa oinaan ja uhrasi sen polttouhriksi poikansa sijasta.

15 Herran enkeli huusi Abrahamille uudelleen taivaasta:

17 että siunaan sinua runsain määrin ja annan sinulle jälkeläisiä niin paljon, että he ovat kuin taivaan tähdet tai hiekanjyvät meren rannalla, ja sinun jälkeläisesi valloittavat vihollistensa kaupungit.

19 Sitten Abraham palasi palvelijoiden luo, ja he lähtivät yhdessä Beersebaan. Ja Abraham jäi asumaan Beersebaan.

20 Näiden tapausten jälkeen Abraham sai tietää, että Milka oli synnyttänyt poikia hänen veljelleen Nahorille.

21 Nämä olivat Us, esikoinen, tämän veli Bus ja Kemuel, josta tuli aramealaisten kantaisä,

22 Kesed, Haso, Pildas, Jidlaf ja Betuel.

23 Betuelille syntyi Rebekka. Kahdeksan poikaa synnytti Milka Nahorille, Abrahamin veljelle.

24 Myös Nahorin sivuvaimo, joka oli nimeltään Reuma, synnytti lapsia. Nämä olivat Tebah, Gaham, Tahas ja Maaka.

1 After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"

He said, "Here I am."

2 He 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."

3 Abraham 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. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off. 5 Abraham 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." 6 Abraham 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. 7 Isaac 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?"

8 Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together. 9 They 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. 10 Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

11 Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, "Abraham, Abraham!"

He said, "Here I am."

12 He 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."

13 Abraham 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. 14 Abraham called the name of that place "Yahweh Will Provide". As it is said to this day, "On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided."

15 Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky, 16 and said, "‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son, 17 that 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. 18 All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.’"

19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.

20 After these things, Abraham was told, "Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel." 23 Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.