Iivesi zeBhayibhile ezithandwayo ezisuka Genesis 22

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So Abraham named that place The LORD Provides. Even today people say, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

Then God said, “Take your only son, Isaac, the son you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Kill him there and offer him as a whole burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

The angel said, “Don’t kill your son or hurt him in any way. Now I can see that you trust God and that you have not kept your son, your only son, from me.”

Abraham answered, “God will give us the lamb for the sacrifice, my son.” So Abraham and his son went on together

I will surely bless you and give you many descendants. They will be as many as the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore, and they will capture the cities of their enemies. Through your descendants all the nations on the earth will be blessed, because you obeyed me.’ ”

After these things God tested Abraham’s faith. God said to him, “Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.”

But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham! Abraham!” Abraham answered, “Yes.”

The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time and said, “The LORD says, ‘Because you did not keep back your son, your only son, from me, I make you this promise by my own name

and came to the place God had told him about. Abraham built an altar there. He laid the wood on it and then tied up his son Isaac and laid him on the wood on the altar.