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12 Then He said, “Do not lay your hands on the boy or do anything to him, because now I know that you fear God, seeing you have not withheld your only son from Me.”

13 Then Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up as a burnt offering in the place of his son. 14 Abraham called the name of that place The Lord Will Provide, as it is said to this day, “In the mount of the Lord it will be provided.”

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12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,(A) because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.(B)

13 Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram[a] caught by its horns.(C) He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.(D) 14 So Abraham called(E) that place The Lord(F) Will Provide. And to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 22:13 Many manuscripts of the Masoretic Text, Samaritan Pentateuch, Septuagint and Syriac; most manuscripts of the Masoretic Text a ram behind him