Up the Mountain

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

2And he said, “Please take your son, your only one, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will tell you.”

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

4On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.

5And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. I and the boy will go over there, and we will worship and return to you.”

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

7And Isaac said to Abraham his father, “My father!” And he said, “Here I am, my son.” And he said, “Look, the fire and the wood—but where is the sheep for a burnt offering?”

8And Abraham said, “God will provide for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” So the two of them went on together.