(Isaaks Opferung , 1. Mose 22)
And it came to pass after those things, that God did tempt Abraham and
said unto him, Abraham, and he said, Behold, here I am.
And he said, Take now thy Son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest,
and get thee into the Land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering
upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and
took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood
for the burnt offering and rose up, and went unto the place of which God
had told him.
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place
afar off.
And Abraham said unto his young man, Abide ye here with the ass;
and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
And Abraham took the wood for the sacrifice and placed it upon his
son, Isaac. And Abraham took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and they
went both of them together.
And Isaac spoke unto Abraham, his father, and said, My father, and
he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood;
but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt
offering. So they went both of them together.
And they came to the place which God had told him of, and Abraham built
an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and
laid him on the altar upon the wood.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his
son.
And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said,
Abraham, Abraham! and he said, Here am I.
And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything
unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withhold
thy son, thine only son from me.
And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a
ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram,
and offered him for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-Jirch; as it is said
to this day, the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
(The sacrifice of Isaac - Gen. 22)
