Genesis 22

¹Which things being done, God tempted Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. But he answered: Here I am.

²He said to him: Take thy only begotten son, whom thou lovest, Isaac, and go into the Land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.

³Therefore Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: taking with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

⁴And the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place a far off:

⁵and he said to his young men: Tarry you here with the ass: I and the boy going with speed as far as yonder, after we have adored will return to you.

⁶He took also the wood of the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and himself carried in his hand fire and a sword. And as they went on together,

⁷Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou son? Behold, saith he, fire & wood; where is the victim of the holocaust?

⁸And Abraham said: God will provide unto himself the victim of the holocaust, my son. They went on therefore together:

⁹and they came to the place which God had shewed him, wherein he builded an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

¹⁰And he stretched forth his hand, and caught the sword, for to sacrifice his son.

¹¹And behold an Angel of our Lord from heaven cried, saying: Abraham, Abraham. Who answered: Here I am.

¹²And he said to him: Stretch not forth thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now have I known that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thine only begotten son for my sake.

¹³Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took & offered an holocaust instead of his son.

¹⁴And he called the name of that place, Our Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said, In the mountain our Lord will see.

¹⁵And the Angel of our Lord called Abraham the second time from heaven, saying:

¹⁶By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thine only begotten son for my sake;

¹⁷I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore: thy seed shall possess the gates of his enemies,

¹⁸and IN Thy Seed Shall be Blessed All The Nations of The Earth, because thou hast obeyed my voice.

¹⁹Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.

²⁰These things so being done, it was told Abraham that Melcha also had born children to Nachor his brother,

²¹Hus the first-begotten, and Buz his brother, and Camuel the father of the Sirians,

²²and Cased, and Azau, Pheldas also and Iedlaph,

²³and Bathuel, of whom was born Rebecca: these eight did Melcha bear to Nachor Abraham's brother.

²⁴And his concubine, named Roma, bare Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha.