Genesis 22:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

He said to him: "Take your only begotten son Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of vision. And there you shall offer him as a holocaust upon one of the mountains, which I will show to you."

Cross References

Genesis 17:19

And God said to Abraham: "Your wife Sarah shall give birth to a son, and you shall call his name Isaac, and I will establish my covenant with him as a perpetual covenant, and with his offspring after him.

Genesis 21:12

And God said to him: "Let it not seem harsh to you concerning the boy and your woman servant. In all that Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice. For your offspring will be invoked in Isaac.

Genesis 21:3

And Abraham called the name of his son, whom Sarah bore for him, Isaac.

Genesis 22:12

And he said to him, "Do not extend your hand over the boy, and do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, since you have not spared your only begotten son for my sake."

Genesis 22:16

"By my own self, I have sworn, says the Lord. Because you have done this thing, and have not spared your only begotten son for my sake,

Genesis 22:3

And so Abraham, getting up in the night, harnessed his donkey, taking with him two youths, and his son Isaac. And when he had cut wood for the holocaust, he traveled toward the place, as God had instructed him.

Genesis 22:9

And they came to the place that God had shown to him. There he built an altar, and he set the wood in order upon it. And when he had bound his son Isaac, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.

Genesis 8:20

Then Noah built an altar to the Lord. And, taking from each of the cattle and birds that were clean, he offered holocausts upon the altar.

2 Kings 3:27

And taking his firstborn son, who would have reigned in his place, he offered him as a holocaust upon the wall. And there was great indignation in Israel. And they promptly withdrew from him, and they turned back to their own land.

2 Chronicles 3:1

And Solomon began to build the house of the Lord, in Jerusalem on mount Moriah, as it had been shown to David his father, at the place which David had prepared on the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Micah 6:7

Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with many thousands of fat he-goats? How could I give up my firstborn because of my evil deed, the fruit of my womb because of the sin of my soul?

John 3:16

For God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, so that all who believe in him may not perish, but may have eternal life.

Romans 5:8

But God demonstrates his love for us in that, while we were yet sinners, at the proper time,

Romans 8:32

He who did not spare even his own Son, but handed him over for the sake of us all, how could he not also, with him, have given us all things?

Hebrews 11:17

By faith, Abraham, when he was tested, offered Isaac, so that he who had received the promises was offering up his only son.

Judges 11:31

whoever will be the first to depart from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the sons of Ammon, the same will I offer as a holocaust to the Lord."

Judges 11:39

And when the two months expired, she returned to her father, and he did to her just as he had vowed, though she knew no man. From this, the custom grew up in Israel, and the practice has been preserved,