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Abraham and Isaac on a rocky mountain beside a low stone altar and stacked wood. The elderly father holds his living young-adult son close in relief, a lowered unused knife resting on a distant stone; no injury, blood or raised weapon. Abraham is the elderly man RIGHT in the patriarch reference; Isaac is the young man LEFT in cast-02. Do not include other reference people.
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Hebrews 11:17-19

Trust in the test

Faith before sight · Hebrews 11

Story guide: Abraham’s testing makes the promise appear impossible. Hebrews interprets his trust as confidence that God could raise the dead, and his receiving Isaac back as a figure of that hope.

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17By faith Abraham, when he was being tested, offered up Isaac, and the one who had received the promises was offering up his one and only son,

18to whom it was said, “In Isaac your offspring will be called,”

19having considered that God is able even to raise from the dead, from where, in a figure, he also received him back.

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