Genesis 22

vayehi akhar haddevarim ha'elleh veha'elohim nissah et-avraham vayyomer elayw avraham vayyomer hinneni

Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test—saying to him, “Abraham.” He answered, “Here I am.”

vayyomer qakh-na et-binkha et-yekhidekha asher-ahavta et-yitskhaq velekh-lekha el-erets hammoriyyah veha'alehu sham le'olah al akhad heharim asher omar elekha

“Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you.”

vayyashkem avraham babboqer vayyakhavosh et-khamoro vayyiqqakh et-shene ne'arayw itto ve'et yitskhaq beno vayevaqqa atse olah vayyaqom vayyelekh el-hammaqom asher-amar-lo ha'elohim

So early next morning, Abraham saddled his donkey and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he set out for the place of which God had told him.

bayyom hashelishi vayyissa avraham et-enayw vayyar et-hammaqom merakhoq

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place from afar.

vayyomer avraham el-ne'arayw shevu-lakhem poh im-hakhamor va'ani vehanna'ar nelekhah ad-koh venishtakhaveh venashuvah alekhem

Then Abraham said to his servants, “You stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go up there; we will worship and we will return to you.”

vayyiqqakh avraham et-atse ha'olah vayyasem al-yitskhaq beno vayyiqqakh beyado et-ha'esh ve'et-hamma'akhelet vayyelekhu shenehem yakhdav

Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. He himself took the firestone and the knife; and the two walked off together.

vayyomer yitskhaq el-avraham aviv vayyomer avi vayyomer hinnenni veni vayyomer hinneh ha'esh veha'etsim ve'ayyeh hasseh le'olah

Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father!” And he answered, “Yes, my son.” And he said, “Here are the firestone and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”

vayyomer avraham elohim yireh-llo hasseh le'olah beni vayyelekhu shenehem yakhdav

And Abraham said, “It is God who will see to the sheep for this burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them walked on together.

vayyavo'u el-hammaqom asher amar-lo ha'elohim vayyiven sham avraham et-hammizbeakh vayya'arokh et-ha'etsim vayya'aqod et-yitskhaq beno vayyasem oto al-hammizbeakh mimma'al la'etsim

They arrived at the place of which God had told him. Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood; he bound his son Isaac; he laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

vayyishlakh avraham et-yado vayyiqqakh et-hamma'akhelet lishkhot et-beno

And Abraham picked up the knife to slay his son.

vayyiqra elayw malakh Adonai min-hashamayim vayyomer avraham avraham vayyomer hinneni

Then an angel of GOD called to him from heaven: “Abraham! Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.”

vayyomer al-tishlakh yadekha el-hanna'ar ve'al-ta'as lo me'umah ki attah yadati ki-yere elohim attah velo khasakhta et-binkha et-yekhidekha mimmenni

“Do not raise your hand against the boy, or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your favored one, from Me.”

vayyissa avraham et-enayw vayyar vehinneh-ayil akhar ne'ekhaz bassevakh beqarnayw vayyelekh avraham vayyiqqakh et-ha'ayil vayya'alehu le'olah takhat beno

When Abraham looked up, his eye fell upon a ram, caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.

vayyiqra avraham shem-hammaqom hahu Adonai yireh asher ye'amer hayyom behar Adonai yera'eh

And Abraham named that site Adonai-yireh, whence the present saying, “On GOD’s mount there is vision.”

vayyiqra malakh Adonai el-avraham shenit min-hashamayim

The angel of GOD called to Abraham a second time from heaven,

vayyomer bi nishbati ne'um-Adonai ki ya'an asher asita et-haddavar hazzeh velo khasakhta et-binkha et-yekhidekha

and said, “By Myself I swear, GOD declares: Because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your favored one,

ki-varekh avarekhkha veharbah arbeh et-zarakha kekhokheve hashamayim vekhakhol asher al-sefat hayyam veyirash zarakha et sha'ar oyevayw

I will bestow My blessing upon you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands on the seashore; and your descendants shall seize the gates of their foes.

vehitbarekhu vezarakha kol goye ha'arets eqev asher shamata beqoli

All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed My command.”

vayyashov avraham el-ne'arayw vayyaqumu vayyelekhu yakhdav el-be'er shava vayyeshev avraham biver shava

Abraham then returned to his servants, and they departed together for Beer-sheba; and Abraham stayed in Beer-sheba.

vayehi akhare haddevarim ha'elleh vayyuggad le'avraham lemor hinneh yaledah milkah gam-hiv banim lenakhor akhikha

Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah too has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

et-uts bekhoro ve'et-buz akhiv ve'et-qemu'el avi aram

Uz the first-born, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram;

ve'et-kesed ve'et-khazo ve'et-pildash ve'et-yidlaf ve'et betu'el

and Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel”—

uvetu'el yalad et-rivqah shemonah elleh yaledah milkah lenakhor akhi avraham

Bethuel being the father of Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother.

ufilagsho ushemah re'umah vatteled gam-hiv et-tevakh ve'et-gakham ve'et-takhash ve'et-ma'akhah

And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore [sons]—Tebah, Gaham, and Tahash—and [a daughter,] Maacah.