en_wbms - Gen 22 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ And after that these things were done, God assayed Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! Abraham! He answered, I am present.

² God said to him, Take thine one begotten son, whom thou lovest, Isaac; and go into the land of vision, and offer thou him there into burnt sacrifice on one of the hills which I shall show to thee.

³ Therefore Abraham rose by night, and saddled his ass, and led with him two young men, and Isaac his son; and when he had hewn trees into burnt sacrifice, he went to the place which God had commanded to him.

⁴ Forsooth in the third day, he raised [up] his eyes, and saw a place afar;

⁵ and he said to his young men, Abide ye here with the ass, I and the child[9] shall go thither; and after that we have worshipped, we shall turn again to you.

⁶ And he took the wood of burnt sacrifice, and laid it on Isaac his son; forsooth he bare fire, and a sword in his hands. And when they twain [or two] went together,

⁷ Isaac said to his father, My father! And he answered, What wilt thou, son? He said, Lo! fire and wood, where is the beast of burnt sacrifice?

⁸ Abraham said, My son, God shall purvey to him the beast of burnt sacrifice. Therefore they went together,

⁹ and came to the place which God had showed to him; in which place Abraham builded an altar, and dressed [the] wood above; and when he had bound altogether Isaac, his son, he laid Isaac on the altar, upon the heap of wood.

¹⁰ And he held forth his hand, and took the sword to sacrifice his son.

¹¹ And lo! the angel of the Lord cried from heaven, and said, Abraham! Abraham! Which answered, I am present.

¹² And the angel said to him, Hold thou not forth thine hand on the child, neither do thou anything of harm to him; now I know that thou dreadest God, and sparedest not thine one begotten son for me.

¹³ Abraham raised [up] his eyes, and he saw behind him a ram cleaving by the horns among briars, which he took, and offered as burnt sacrifice for the son.

¹⁴ And he called the name of that place The Lord seeth; wherefore it is said, till to this day, The Lord shall see in the hill.

¹⁵ Forsooth the angel of the Lord called to Abraham the second time from heaven,

¹⁶ and said, The Lord saith, I have sworn by myself, for thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thine one begotten son for me,

¹⁷ I shall bless thee, and I shall multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the gravel, either sand, which is in the brink of the sea; thy seed shall wield the gates of his enemies;

¹⁸ and all the folks of [the] earth shall be blessed in thy seed, for thou obeyedest to my voice.

¹⁹ Abraham turned again to his young men, and they went to Beersheba together, and he dwelled there.

²⁰ And so when these things were done, it was told to Abraham that also Milcah had borne sons to Nahor his brother;

²¹ Huz the first begotten, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

²² and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel,

²³ of whom Rebecca was born; Milcah childed these eight to Nahor, the brother of Abraham.

²⁴ Forsooth his concubine, or secon-dary wife, Reumah by name, childed Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.