Genesis 22
NLT
Commentaries

Show in the text

Up to 5 commentaries at a time. Each excerpt opens in full.

New Living Translation

Genesis 22:11-14

11At that moment the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!” “Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”

12“Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”

13Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.

14Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the Lord it will be provided.”

Read all of Genesis 22

Commentaries on Genesis 22

New Living Translation — © 1996, 2004, 2015 Tyndale House Foundation