Mount Moriah

The land of Moriah · Genesis 22

God is testing Abraham. Told to offer his son Isaac, Abraham has walked three days to the mountain in Moriah.

You do not go down. You call once, from the sky. The moment is when Abraham, at the altar, has taken the knife. His hands do one thing per move.

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What happens in Genesis 22

God tested Abraham and told him to take his only son Isaac, whom he loved, to the land of Moriah and offer him as a burnt offering on a mountain he would be shown.

Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey and set out with two of his young men and Isaac. On the third day he saw the place far off.

He told the young men to stay with the donkey, laid the wood on Isaac and took the fire and the knife in his own hand. Isaac asked where the lamb for the burnt offering was, and Abraham answered that God would provide himself the lamb.

At the place God had told him of, Abraham built the altar and laid the wood in order. He bound Isaac, laid him on the altar on the wood, stretched out his hand and took the knife.

Yahweh's angel called to him out of the sky: Abraham, Abraham. The angel told him not to lay his hand on the boy or do anything to him.

Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw behind him a ram caught in the thicket by its horns. He offered the ram as a burnt offering instead of his son, and called the place Yahweh Will Provide.

Genesis 22:1-14 · World English Bible

1 After these things, God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

2 He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

3 Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went to the place of which God had told him.

4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.

5 Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”

6 Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son. He took in his hand the fire and the knife. They both went together.

7 Isaac spoke to Abraham his father, and said, “My father?” He said, “Here I am, my son.” He said, “Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

8 Abraham said, “God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So they both went together.

9 They came to the place which God had told him of. Abraham built the altar there, and laid the wood in order, bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

10 Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.

11 Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!” He said, “Here I am.”

12 He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.

14 Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”

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