Genesis 22:12

World English Bible

He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

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Genesis 22:12 in other translations

And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

Genesis 22:12 · American Standard Version

Genesis 22:12 in context

  1. 10Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to kill his son.
  2. 11Yahweh’s angel called to him out of the sky, and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”
    He said, “Here I am.”
  3. 12He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”
  4. 13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
  5. 14Abraham called the name of that place “Yahweh Will Provide”. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”