Genesis 22-23New King James Version (NKJV)
Abraham’s Faith Confirmed
22 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[a] 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;[b] 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.[c] These eight Milcah bore to Nahor,
Abraham’s brother. 24 His concubine, whose name was
Reumah, also bore Tebah, Gaham, Thahash, and Maachah.
Sarah’s Death and Burial
23 Sarah lived one hundred and twenty-seven
years; these were the years of the life of Sarah. 2 So
Sarah died in Kirjath Arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of
Canaan, and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
3 Then Abraham stood up from before
his dead, and spoke to the sons of Heth, saying, 4 “I am a
foreigner and a visitor among you. Give me property for a burial place among
you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”
5 And the sons of Heth answered
Abraham, saying to him, 6 “Hear us, my lord: You are a
mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our burial places.
None of us will withhold from you his burial place, that you may bury your
dead.”
7 Then Abraham stood up and bowed
himself to the people of the land, the sons of Heth. 8 And
he spoke with them, saying, “If it is your wish that I bury my dead out of my
sight, hear me, and meet with Ephron the son of Zohar for me, 9 that
he may give me the cave of Machpelah which he has, which is at
the end of his field. Let him give it to me at the full price, as property for
a burial place among you.”
10 Now Ephron dwelt among the sons of
Heth; and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the presence of the sons of
Heth, all who entered at the gate of his city, saying, 11 “No,
my lord, hear me: I give you the field and the cave that is in
it; I give it to you in the presence of the sons of my people. I give it to
you. Bury your dead!”
12 Then Abraham bowed himself down
before the people of the land; 13 and he spoke to
Ephron in the hearing of the people of the land, saying, “If you will
give it,please hear me. I will give you money for the field; take it from
me and I will bury my dead there.”
14 And Ephron answered Abraham,
saying to him, 15 “My lord, listen to me; the land is
worth four hundred shekels of silver. What is that
between you and me? So bury your dead.” 16 And
Abraham listened to Ephron; and Abraham weighed out the silver for Ephron which
he had named in the hearing of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of
silver, currency of the merchants.
17 So the field of Ephron which was in
Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field and the cave
which was in it, and all the trees that were in
the field, which werewithin all the surrounding borders, were
deeded 18 to Abraham as a possession in the
presence of the sons of Heth, before all who went in at the gate of his city.
19 And after this, Abraham buried
Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah, before Mamre (that is, Hebron)
in the land of Canaan. 20 So the field and the cave
that is in it were deeded to Abraham by the sons of Heth as
property for a burial place.
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