22 After these events, God tested and proved Abraham and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Here I am.

² [God] said, Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah; and offer him there as a burnt offering upon one of the mountains of which I will tell you.

³ So Abraham rose early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and then began the trip to the place of which God had told him.

⁴ On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

⁵ And Abraham said to his servants, Settle down and stay here with the donkey, and I and the young man will go yonder and worship and ^[a]come again to you.

⁶ Then Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on [the shoulders of] Isaac his son, and he took the fire (the firepot) in his own hand, and a knife; and the two of them went on together.

⁷ And Isaac said to Abraham, My father! And he said, Here I am, my son. [Isaac] said, See, here are the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt sacrifice?

⁸ Abraham said, My son, ^[b]God Himself will provide a lamb for the burnt offering. So the two went on together.

⁹ When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there; then he laid the wood in order and ^[c]bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood.^(A)

¹⁰ And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took hold of the knife to slay his son.^(B)