Jul 7, 2019
9 When they reached the place God had told him about,
Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound
his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the
wood.
10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay
his son.
11 But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven,
“Abraham! Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do
anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not
withheld from me your son, your only son.”
13Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a
ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and
sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his
son.
14 So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And
to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be
provided.”
15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a
second time