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“God will provide[a] for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham replied. The two of them continued on together.

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  1. Genesis 22:8 tn Heb “will see for himself.” The construction means “to look out for; to see to it; to provide.”sn God will provide is the central theme of the passage and the turning point in the story. Note Paul’s allusion to the story in Rom 8:32 (“how shall he not freely give us all things?”) as well as H. J. Schoeps, “The Sacrifice of Isaac in Paul’s Theology,” JBL 65 (1946): 385-92.

Abraham answered, “God himself will provide(A) the lamb(B) for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

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And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

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