Popular Bible Verses from Genesis 22

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And he called the name of that place The Lord seeth; wherefore it is said, till to this day, The Lord shall see in the hill.

God said to him, Take thine one begotten son, whom thou lovest, Isaac; and go into the land of vision, and offer thou him there into burnt sacrifice on one of the hills which I shall show to thee.

And the angel said to him, Hold thou not forth thine hand on the child, neither do thou anything of harm to him; now I know that thou dreadest God, and sparedest not thine one begotten son for me.

Abraham said, My son, God shall purvey to him the beast of burnt sacrifice. Therefore they went together

I shall bless thee, and I shall multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the gravel, either sand , which is in the brink of the sea; thy seed shall wield the gates of his enemies; and all the folks of [the] earth shall be blessed in thy seed, for thou obeyedest to my voice.

And after that these things were done, God assayed Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! Abraham! He answered, I am present.

And lo! the angel of the Lord cried from heaven, and said, Abraham! Abraham! Which answered, I am present.

Forsooth the angel of the Lord called to Abraham the second time from heaven, and said, The Lord saith, I have sworn by myself, for thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thine one begotten son for me

and came to the place which God had showed to him; in which place Abraham builded an altar, and dressed [the] wood above; and when he had bound altogether Isaac, his son, he laid Isaac on the altar, upon the heap of wood.