![]() ![]() And indeed if they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had opportunity to return. For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. All these died in faith, without receiving the promises, but having seen them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Therefore there was born even of one man, and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants AS THE STARS OF HEAVEN IN NUMBER, AND INNUMERABLE AS THE SAND WHICH IS BY THE SEASHORE. read more.īy faith even Sarah herself received ability to conceive, even beyond the proper time of life, since she considered Him faithful who had promised. By faith he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs of the same promise for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God. Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.īy faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed by going out to a place which he was to receive for an inheritance and he went out, not knowing where he was going. Then they came to the place of which God had told him and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. ![]() Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, "My father!" And he said, "Here I am, my son." And he said, "Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?" Abraham said, "God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son." So the two of them walked on together. Abraham said to his young men, "Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there and we will worship and return to you." Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance. Now it came about after these things, that God tested Abraham, and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." He said, "Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you." So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. ![]()
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