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The Command to Offer Isaac

22 Sometime later, God tested Abraham. He called out to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am!” he answered.

God[a] said, “Please take your son, your unique son whom you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him as a burnt offering there on one of the mountains that I will point out to you.”

So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his male servants[b] with him, along with his son Isaac. He cut the wood for the burnt offering and set out to go to the place about which God had spoken to him.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 22:2 Lit. He
  2. Genesis 22:3 Or young men