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Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there. We will worship, and come back to you.”

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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.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 22:5 Abraham was not lying to his servants or trying to deceive them. He believed God, Who had promised him that this young man’s posterity was to inherit the promises made to Abraham (Gen. 12:2, 3).

He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.(A)

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19 concluding that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Figuratively speaking, he also did receive him back from the dead.

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19 For he reasoned that God was able to raise [him] up even from among the dead. Indeed in the sense that Isaac was figuratively dead [potentially sacrificed], he did [actually] receive him back from the dead.

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19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead,(A) and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.

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