# Genesis 22 (New King James Version)
Abraham's Faith Confirmed

##### Chapter 22
###### 1 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!"
And he said, "Here I am."

###### 2 Then He said, "Take now your son, your only _son_ Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you."

###### 3 So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.  
###### 4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off.  
###### 5 And Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you."

###### 6 So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid _it_ on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together.  
###### 7 But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!"
And he said, "Here I am, my son."
Then he said, "Look, the fire and the wood, but where _is_ the lamb for a burnt offering?"

###### 8 And Abraham said, "My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering." So the two of them went together.

###### 9 Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.  
###### 10 And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

###### 11 But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, "Abraham, Abraham!"
So he said, "Here I am."

###### 12 And He said, "Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only _son,_ from Me."

###### 13 Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind _him was_ a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son.  
###### 14 And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said _to_ this day, "In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided."

###### 15 Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven,  
###### 16 and said: "By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only _son_--  
###### 17 blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which _is_ on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies.  
###### 18 In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."  
###### 19 So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.The Family of Nahor

###### 20 Now it came to pass after these things that it was told Abraham, saying, "Indeed Milcah also has borne children to your brother Nahor:  
###### 21 Huz his firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram,  
###### 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel."  
###### 23 And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.  
###### 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah.