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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Genesis 22 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/genesis/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/genesis/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Genesis 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../genesis/21.htm" title="Genesis 21">◄</a> Genesis 22 <a href="../genesis/23.htm" title="Genesis 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/genesis/22.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Abraham’s Faith Tested</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Some time later, God tested Abraham’s faith. “Abraham!” God called.</p><p class="reg">“Yes,” he replied. “Here I am.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Take your son, your only son—yes, Isaac, whom you love so much—and go to the land of Moriah. Go and sacrifice him as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The next morning Abraham got up early. He saddled his donkey and took two of his servants with him, along with his son, Isaac. Then he chopped wood for a fire for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had told him about. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>On the third day of their journey, Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told the servants. “The boy and I will travel a little farther. We will worship there, and then we will come right back.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?”</p><p class="reg">“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.</p><p class="reg">“We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“God will provide a sheep for the burnt offering, my son,” Abraham answered. And they both walked on together.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>When they arrived at the place where God had told him to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son, Isaac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>At that moment the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”</p><p class="reg">“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the LORD will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then the angel of the LORD called again to Abraham from heaven. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your son, your only son, I swear by my own name that <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I will certainly bless you. I will multiply your descendants<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> beyond number, like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will conquer the cities of their enemies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And through your descendants all the nations of the earth will be blessed—all because you have obeyed me.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then they returned to the servants and traveled back to Beersheba, where Abraham continued to live.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Soon after this, Abraham heard that Milcah, his brother Nahor’s wife, had borne Nahor eight sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>The oldest was named Uz, the next oldest was Buz, followed by Kemuel (the ancestor of the Arameans), <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>(Bethuel became the father of Rebekah.) In addition to these eight sons from Milcah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/genesis/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Nahor had four other children from his concubine Reumah. Their names were Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">22:17 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">seed;</span><span class="ft"> also in 22:17b, 18.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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