² Then God said, “Take your son^(A), your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah.^(B) Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering^(C) on a mountain I will show you.^(D)”

¹³ Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram^[a] caught by its horns.^(A) He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.^(B)

²⁵ But Moses said, “You must allow us to have sacrifices and burnt offerings^(A) to present to the Lord our God.

²⁴ “‘Make an altar^(A) of earth for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings^(B) and fellowship offerings, your sheep and goats and your cattle. Wherever I cause my name^(C) to be honored, I will come to you and bless^(D) you.

²⁹ He set the altar^(A) of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the tent of meeting, and offered on it burnt offerings and grain offerings,^(B) as the Lord commanded^(C) him.

³ “‘If the offering is a burnt offering^(A) from the herd,^(B) you are to offer a male without defect.^(C) You must present it at the entrance to the tent^(D) of meeting so that it will be acceptable^(E) to the Lord.

²⁹ They are to lay their hand on the head^(A) of the sin offering^(B) and slaughter it at the place of the burnt offering.^(C)