Some time later, God tested Abraham. And he said to him, “Abraham.”
And he said, “Yes.”
And he said, “Take your son, your darling, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and burn him there as a sacrifice on one of the hills that I will show you.”
And early in the morning Abraham saddled his donkey, and took two of his men with him, and his son Isaac, and the wood that he had chopped for the sacrifice, and set out for the place that God had spoken of.
On the third day, Abraham looked up and saw the place in thedistance. And he said to his men, “You stay here with the donkey; I and the boy will go up there and worship and come back to you.”
And Abraham took the wood for the sacrifice and put it on his son Isaac. And he himself took the firestone and the knife. And the two of them walked on together.
And Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father.”
And he said, “Yes, my son.”
And he said, “Here are the firestone and the wood. But where is the sheep for the sacrifice?”
And Abraham said, “God will provide a sheep for the sacrifice, my son.”
And the two of them walked on together.
And they came to the place that God had shown him. And Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac, and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. And Abraham reached out and picked up the knife to slaughter his son.
And God called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham! Abraham!”
And he said, “Yes.”
And he said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do him any harm. Now I know how deeply you revere God, since you have not withheld your son, your darling, from me.”
And Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. And he went and took the ram and burned it as a sacrifice instead of his son. And he named that place YHVH-yireh, The Lord Provides.
And Abraham went back to his men, and they set out together for Beer-sheba. And Abraham stayed in Beer-sheba.