Bereshit 22

And it was after these things — God tested Abraham; and said to him: 'O Abraham!' He said: 'I am at your service.'

He said: 'Take your son, your only one, whom you love — he is Isaac — and go to the land of worship; and offer him there as an offering, upon one of the mountains which I shall tell you.'

And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his donkey; and he took his two youths with him, and Isaac his son; and he split wood for the offering; and he arose and went to the place which God had told him.

And on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place from afar.

And he said to his youths: 'Sit here with the donkey; and I and the boy will go on yonder, and we shall bow down, and we shall return to you.'

And Abraham took the wood of the offering, and set it upon Isaac his son; and he took with him the fire and the knife; and the two of them went on together.

And Isaac said to Abraham his father: 'O my father!' He said: 'I am at your service, my son.' He said: 'Behold the fire and the wood — but where is the lamb for the offering?'

Abraham said: 'God shall show forth the lamb for the offering, my son.' And the two of them went on together.

Until they came to the place which God had told him. And Abraham built there an altar; and he arranged the wood; and he bound Isaac his son, and set him upon the altar above the wood.

Then Abraham put forth his hand, and took the knife — to slaughter his son.

And the angel of God called to him from the sky, and said: 'O Abraham, O Abraham!' He said: 'I am at your service.'

He said: 'Do not put forth your hand against the boy, nor do anything to him — for now I have made it known to people that you fear God, and you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me.'

Then Abraham lifted up his eyes after that, and looked — and behold, a ram, its horns entangled in a thicket of trees. And he went and took it, and offered it as an offering in place of his son.

And Abraham named that place 'The God who reveals Himself' — so that it would be said, on the like of this day: 'On this mountain — God reveals Himself.'

Then the angel of God called to Abraham a second time from the sky.

He said: 'By My name I have sworn — says God — that since you have done this thing, and not withheld your son, your only one, from Me,

surely I shall bless you, and multiply your offspring like the stars of the sky and like the sand which is upon the shore of the sea; and your offspring shall possess the towns of its enemies.

And in your offspring shall all the nations of the earth be blessed — recompense for that you have accepted My word.'

Then Abraham returned to his youths; and they rose, and went together to Beer-Sheba; and Abraham settled there.

And it was after these things, that Abraham was told, saying: 'Behold, Milkah — she too has borne sons to Nahor your brother:

Uz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

and Kesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Yidlaph, and Bethuel.'

And Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milkah bore to Nahor, Abraham's brother.

And his maidservant — her name was Reumah; she too bore: Tevah, and Gaham, and Tahash, and Maacah.