¹It happened after these words that God tested Abraham and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here I am.

²And he said, Please take your son, your only child, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will tell you.

³And Abraham started out early in the morning and saddled his donkey; he took two of his boys with him, and Isaac his son; he split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose and went to the place that God had told him.

⁴On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from a distance.

⁵And Abraham said to his boys, Stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go as far as there, and we will bow down and return to you.

⁶And Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire and the knife in his hand; and the two of them went together.

⁷And Isaac said to Abraham his father, and said, My father! And he said, Here I am, my son. And he said, Here are the fire and the wood, but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?

⁸Abraham said, "God himself will see to the sheep for the burnt offering, my son." And the two of them went on together.

⁹And they came to the place that God had told him; and there Abraham built the altar, and arranged the wood, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

¹⁰And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.

¹¹And the messenger of Yahweh called to him from the heavens, and said, Abraham, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.

¹²And he said, Do not stretch out your hand to the boy, and do not do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only child from me.

¹³And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.

¹⁴And Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will See, as it is said today, On the mountain of Yahweh it will be seen.

¹⁵And the messenger of Yahweh called to Abraham a second time from the heavens.

¹⁶And he said, By myself I have sworn, the utterance of Yahweh: because you have done this word and have not withheld your son, your only child,

¹⁷that I will surely bless you and will surely multiply your seed like the stars of the skies and like the sand that is on the edge of the sea; and your seed will take possession of the gate of their enemies.

¹⁸and by your seed all the nations of the land will bless themselves, because you listened to my voice.

¹⁹And Abraham returned to his boys, and they rose and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelled in Beer-sheba.

²⁰And it happened after these words that it was told to Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also has borne children to Nahor your brother:

²¹Uz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

²²and Kesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

²³And Bethuel fathered Rebekah; these eight Milcah bore to Nahor the brother of Abraham.

²⁴And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she also bore Tebah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.