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Genesis 22:6-16 Modern English Version (MEV)

6. So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand and the knife. So the two of them walked on together.

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

8. Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.

9. Then they came to the place that God had told him. So Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, on the wood.

10. Then Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

11. But the angel of the Lord called to him out of heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”And he said, “Here I am.”

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.”

15. Then the angel of the Lord called to Abraham out of heaven a second time,

16. and said, “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

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