₁Some time later God tested Abraham; he called to him, “Abraham!” And Abraham answered, “Yes, here I am!”

₂“Take your son,” God said, “your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me.”

₃Early the next morning Abraham cut some wood for the sacrifice, loaded his donkey, and took Isaac and two servants with him. They started out for the place that God had told him about. ₄On the third day Abraham saw the place in the distance.