Versete biblice populare din Genesis 22

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Abraham named that place Yahweh-yireh; hence people today say, “On the mountain the LORD will provide.”

Then God said: Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There offer him up as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you.

“Do not lay your hand on the boy,” said the angel. “Do not do the least thing to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you did not withhold from me your son, your only one.”

“My son,” Abraham answered, “God will provide the sheep for the burnt offering.” Then the two walked on together.

I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies, and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing, because you obeyed my command.”

Some time afterward, God put Abraham to the test and said to him: Abraham! “Here I am!” he replied.

But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.

A second time the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven and said: “I swear by my very self—oracle of the LORD—that because you acted as you did in not withholding from me your son, your only one

When they came to the place of which God had told him, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. Next he bound his son Isaac, and put him on top of the wood on the altar.