Genesis
22 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition )
22 After these things, God tempted
Abraham, and said to him: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
2 He said to him: Take
thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go
into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for an
holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will shew thee.
3 So Abraham rising up
in the night, saddled his ass: and took with him two
young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust he
went his way to the place which God had commanded him.
4 And on the third day,
lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.
5 And he said to his
young men: Stay you here with the ass: I and the boy will go with speed as far
as yonder, and after we have worshipped, will return to you.
6 And he took the wood
for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac his son: and he himself carried in
his hands fire and a sword. And as they two went on together,
7 Isaac said to his
father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim for the
holocaust?
8 And Abraham said: God
will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my
son. So they went on together.
9 And they came to the
place which God had shewn him, where he built an
altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had bound Isaac his son,
he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.
10 And he put forth his
hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.
11 And behold an angel
of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he
answered: Here I am.
12 And he said to him:
Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing
to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast
not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.
13 Abraham lifted up his
eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the
horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.
14 And he called the
name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to
this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
15 And the angel of the
Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:
16 By my own self have I
sworn, saith the Lord:
because thou hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son
for my sake:
17 I will bless thee,
and I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is by
the sea shore: thy seed shall possess the gates of their enemies.
18 And in thy seed shall
all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19 Abraham returned to
his young men, and they went to Bersabee together,
and he dwelt there.