The Offering of Isaac (John 3:1–21)
2 UDB God said, "Your son, Isaac, whom you love very much, is the only son I promised to give you. Take him with you and go together to the land of Moriah, and go up a mountain I will show you, and offer him as a burnt offering." BSB BSB: “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.” 3 UDB So Abraham got up early the next morning, put a saddle on his donkey, and took with him two of his servants along with his son, Isaac. He also chopped some wood for a fire for a burnt offering. Then they started traveling to the place God told him about. BSB BSB: So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
4 UDB On the third day that they were traveling, Abraham looked up and saw in the distance the place where God wanted him to go. BSB BSB: On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
7 UDB Then Isaac spoke to his father Abraham, saying, "My father." Abraham replied, "Yes, my son, I am here!" Isaac said, "Look, we have wood and coals to light a fire, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" BSB BSB: Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
9 UDB They arrived at the place God had told him about. There, Abraham built a stone altar and arranged the wood on top of it. Then he tied his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. BSB BSB: When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.
10 UDB Then Abraham took the knife and reached out to kill his son. BSB BSB: Then Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son.
The LORD Provides the Sacrifice 12 UDB The angel said, "Do not harm the boy, because now I know that you respect and obey God. I know this because you have not refused to sacrifice your only son." BSB BSB: “Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
13 UDB Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram nearby, in a thicket that had caught its horns. So Abraham went over and grabbed the ram and killed it, and sacrificed it on the altar as a burnt offering, instead of his son. BSB BSB: Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14 UDB Abraham named that place "Yahweh will provide." To the present day people say, "On Yahweh's mountain, he will provide." BSB BSB: And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
15 UDB The angel of Yahweh called out to Abraham from heaven a second time. BSB BSB: And the angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,
16 UDB He said, "I, Yahweh, declare to you that you did what I told you, and you have not held back your only son. So I solemnly swear, with myself as my witness, BSB BSB: saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
17 UDB that your descendants will be as many as the stars in the sky and the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will defeat their enemies and capture their cities. BSB BSB: I will surely bless you, and I will multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the gates of their enemies.
18 UDB You obeyed me, so by means of your descendants the people of all the nations on the earth will be blessed." BSB BSB: And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
19 UDB Then Abraham and Isaac returned to where his servants were waiting, and they went back together to Beersheba, and Abraham and his people continued to stay there. BSB BSB: Abraham went back to his servants, and they got up and set out together for Beersheba. And Abraham settled in Beersheba.
The Sons of Nahor 20 UDB After these things happened, someone told Abraham, "Your brother Nahor's wife, Milkah, has also given birth to children." BSB BSB: Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
21 UDB Now the oldest son was Uz. The next was Buz. After him was Kemuel, the father of Aram. BSB BSB: Uz the firstborn, his brother Buz, Kemuel (the father of Aram),
22 UDB After Kemuel was Kesed, then Hazo, then Pildash, then Jidlaph, then Bethuel. BSB BSB: Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.”
23 UDB Bethuel was the father of Rebekah. Those were the eight sons of Milkah, wife of Abraham's brother Nahor. BSB BSB: And Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham’s brother Nahor.
24 UDB Nahor also had a concubine, whose name was Beumah. She gave birth to four sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maakah. BSB BSB: Moreover, Nahor’s concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.