Add parallel Print Page Options

10 Then he stretched out his hand and grabbed the knife to slaughter his son.

The Angel of the Lord Intervenes

11 Just then, an angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven and said, “Abraham! Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he answered.

12 “Don’t lay your hand on the youth!” he said. “Don’t do anything to him, because I’ve just demonstrated[a] that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only unique one, from me.”

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Genesis 22:12 Lit. because now I know

10 Then he reached out his hand and took the knife(A) to slay his son.(B) 11 But the angel of the Lord(C) called out to him from heaven,(D) “Abraham! Abraham!”(E)

“Here I am,”(F) he replied.

12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,(G) because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.(H)

Read full chapter

10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

11 And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.

Read full chapter