In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

She now demands of Abraham that he, “Cast out that slave woman and her son, for the son of that slave shall not share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.” (21:10).

In the story, God puts Abraham to the test, asking him to “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of ...

But there’s another aspect of Abraham’s readiness to sacrifice Isaac that deserves mention for moderns. I acknowledge the basic thought came from the late Cardinal Ján Korec, Archbishop of ...

“And Abraham said, ‘God will provide [lit. will see or will appear] for Himself the burnt offering, my son’. So they both went together.” (Genesis 22:8) ...

Previously, in verse 8, Abraham and Isaac had walked up the mountain together. But in verse 22, only Abraham returns. Get The Times of Israel's Daily Edition by email and never miss our top stories.

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