1. VVHɪᴄʜ things being done, God tempted Abraham, and said to him; Abraham, Abraham.
But he answered: Here I am.
2. He said to him: Take thy only begotten sonne, whom thou louest, Isaac, and goe into
the Land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for an holocaust vpon one of the mountaines
which I wil shew thee.
3. Therfore Abraham rising vp in the night, sadled his asse: taking with him two young men,
and Isaac his sonne: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he went his way to the place which
God had commanded him.
4. And the third day, lifting vp his eyes, he sawe the place afarre of:
5. and he said to his young men: Tarie you here with the asse: I and the boy going with
spede as farre as yonder, after we haue adored, wil returne to you.
6. He tooke also the wood of the holocaust, and laid it vpon Isaac his sonne: and him
selfe caried in his hands fire and a sword. And as they went on together,
7. Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What wilt thou sonne? Behold,
saith he, fire and wood: where is the victime of the holocaust?
8. And Abraham said: God wil prouide vnto him selfe the victime of the holocaust, my
sonne. They went on therfore together:
9. and they came to the place which God had shewed him, wherin he builed an altar, and
laid the wood in order vpon it: and when he had bound Isaac his sonne, he laid him on the altar
vpon the pile of wood.
10. And he stretched forth his hand, and caught the sword, for to sacrifice his sonne.
11. And behold an angel of our Lord from heauen cried, saying: Abraham, Abraham. Who
answered: Here I am.
12. And he said to him: Stretch not forth thy hand vpon the boy, neither doe thou any thing
to him: now haue I knowen that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thine onlie begotten sonne
for my sake.
13. Abraham lifted vp his eyes, and saw behind his backe a ramme amongst the briers
sticking fast by the hornes, which he tooke and offered an holocaust in stede of his sonne.
14. And he called the name of that place, Our Lord seeth. Wherupon euen to this
day it is said, In the mountaine our Lord wil see.
15. And the angel of our Lord called Abraham the second time from heauen, saying:
16. By my owne selfe haue I sworne, saith the Lord: because thou hast done this thing, and
hast not spared thine onlie begotten sonne for my sake:
17. I wil blesse thee, and I wil multiplie thy sede as the starres of heauen, and as the
sand that is by the sea shore: thy sede shal possesse the gates of his enemies,
18. and in thy sede ꜱʜᴀʟ ʙe ʙʟeꜱꜱeᴅ al the nations of the earth, because thou hast obeyed
my voice.
19. Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.
20. These things so being done, it was told Abraham that Melca also had borne
children to Nachor his brother,
21. Hus the firstbegotten, & Buz his brother, and Camuel the father of the Sirians,
22. and Cased, and Azau. Pheldas also & Iedlaph,
23. and Bathuel, of whom was borne Rebecca: these eight did Melcha beare, to Nachor
Abrahams brother.
24. And his concubine, named Roma, bare Tabee, and Gaham, and Tahas, and Maacha.