God Commands Abraham to Offer Isaac
1 Some time later God tested Abraham; he called to him, “Abraham!” And Abraham answered, “Yes, here I am!”
2 “Take your son,” God said, “your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me.”
3 Early the next morning Abraham cut some wood for the sacrifice, loaded his donkey, and took Isaac and two servants with him. They started out for the place that God had told him about. 4 On the third day Abraham saw the place in the distance. 5 Then he said to the servants, “Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there and worship, and then we will come back to you.”
6 Abraham made Isaac carry the wood for the sacrifice, and he himself carried a knife and live coals for starting the fire. As they walked along together, 7 Isaac spoke up, “Father!”
He answered, “Yes, my son?”
Isaac asked, “I see that you have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?”
8 Abraham answered, “God himself will provide one.” And the two of them walked on together.
9 When they came to the place which God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Then he picked up the knife to kill him. 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!”
He answered, “Yes, here I am.”
12 “Don't hurt the boy or do anything to him,” he said. “Now I know that you honor and obey God, because you have not kept back your only son from him.”
13 Abraham looked around and saw a ram caught in a bush by its horns. He went and got it and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 Abraham named that place “The Lord Provides.” And even today people say, “On the Lord's mountain he provides.”
15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven a second time, 16 “I make a vow by my own name—the Lord is speaking—that I will richly bless you. Because you did this and did not keep back your only son from me, 17 I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies. 18 All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants—all because you obeyed my command.” 19 Abraham went back to his servants, and they went together to Beersheba, where Abraham settled.
The Descendants of Nahor
20 Some time later Abraham learned that Milcah had borne eight children to his brother Nahor: 21 Uz the first-born, Buz his brother, Kemuel the father of Aram, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel, 23 Rebecca's father. Milcah bore these eight sons to Nahor, Abraham's brother. 24 Reumah, Nahor's concubine, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Alla ye Iburayima yaamari ka Isiyaaka bo sadaa ti
1 Ñiŋ kuwolu boriŋo a la, Alla naata Iburayima kotobo. A ko a ye ko, “Iburayima!” Iburayima ko a ye ko, “M fele jaŋ.” 2 Bituŋ Alla ko a ye ko, “I dinkewo taa, i dinkee kiliŋo, i kanu diŋo Isiyaaka, i ye taa Moriya tundoo kaŋ. M be konkoo yitandi la i la, i ye a bo n ye jani sadaa* ti jee.”
3 Wo saamoo soomandaa Iburayima wulita juuna. A ye sadaa ñiŋ janiraŋ loo bee kuntu. A ye a la faloo dunindi. Bituŋ a niŋ a dinkewo Isiyaaka wulita ka taa dulaa ñiŋ to, Alla ye meŋ na kuwo fo a ye. A niŋ a la dookuulaa moo fula le fanaa taata ñoo la. 4 Tili sabanjaŋ luŋo la, Iburayima ye a kuŋo wuli, a ye dulaa ñiŋ hayinaŋ a ñaato. 5 Bituŋ a ko a la dookuulaalu ye ko, “Alitolu ye tu jaŋ, ali niŋ faloo. Nte niŋ Isiyaaka be taa la jana le. M̀ be taa Alla batoo la jee, wo koolaa m̀ be naa muruŋ na naŋ ali kaŋ ne.”
6 Iburayima ye loo taa, sadaa be jani la meŋ na. A ye a laa a diŋo Isiyaaka kunto. Bituŋ ate faŋo ye dimbaa samba aniŋ muroo. Bituŋ ì moo fuloo bee taata ñoo la.
7 Isiyaaka ko a faamaa Iburayima ye ko, “M faa!” Bituŋ a ko a ye ko, “M fele jaŋ, n dinkewo.” A ko a ye ko, “Dimbaa niŋ loo be jaŋ ne, bari saajiiriŋo lee, meŋ be ke la jani sadaa ti?”
8 Iburayima ko a ye ko, “N dinkewo, Alla faŋo le be saajiiriŋo dii la, meŋ be ke la jani sadaa ti.” Wo le to ì moo fuloo bee tententa ka taa ñoo la.
9 Kabiriŋ ì futata dulaa ñiŋ to, Alla ye daameŋ na kuwo fo a ye, Iburayima ye sadaabodulaa* loo jee. A ye loo jurumi a kaŋ. Bituŋ a ye a diŋo Isiyaaka siti, a ye a laa wo sadaabodulaa loo kaŋ santo. 10 Iburayima ye muroo sika ka naa a diŋo kanateyi doroŋ, 11 Yaawe* la malaayikoo naata Iburayima kumandi ka bo santo ko, “Iburayima, Iburayima!” Iburayima ko, “M fele.”
12 A ko a ye ko, “I buloo kana maa ñiŋ kambaanendiŋo la, waraŋ ka feŋ ke a la. Saayiŋ ŋa a loŋ ne ko, i ye Alla ñaasilaŋo soto le, baawo i maŋ balaŋ ka i dinkee kiliŋo ke sadaa ti n ye.”
13 Bituŋ Iburayima ye a kuŋo wuli, a ye saakotoŋo je, a binoo be marandiŋ ñunkoo kono. Iburayima taata, a ye a taa jee, a ye a bo jani sadaa ti, ka ke a dinkewo jooseyiraŋo ti. 14 Iburayima ye wo dulaa toolaa, “Yaawe faŋo le be a dii la.” Hani bii ì ka a fo wo le ñaama, “Yaawe la konkoo kaŋ, a be a dii la le.”
15 Yaawe la malaayikoo ye Iburayima kumandi siiñaa fulanjaŋo la ka bo santo, 16 a ko a ye ko, “Yaawe ye ñiŋ ne bankee ko, ‘N kalita m faŋo le la i la ñiŋ kuwo kewo kaŋ: bayiri i maŋ i dinkee kiliŋo siyaa n ye sadaa ti, 17 m be neema la i ma, aduŋ m be i koomalankoolu siyandi la komeŋ looloolu, aniŋ komeŋ bankumunkoo, aduŋ i koomalankoolu be ì jawoolu noo la le. 18 Duniyaa moo koteŋolu bee be neemoo soto la ka bo niŋ i koomoo le la, kaatu i ye n na yaamaroo muta le.’ ”
19 Iburayima muruta a la dookuulaalu kaŋ, a niŋ ì taata ñoo la Beeriseba. A sabatita jee le to.
Nahori koomalankoolu
20 Waati doo naata soto, kumoo futata Iburayima ma ko, “Milika fanaa ye diŋolu wuluu i doomaa Nahori la le: 21 Usi le mu diŋ foloo ti, a doomaa Busi, Kemuweli, Aramu faamaa, 22 Kesedi, Haso, Pilidasi, Yidilafi, aniŋ Betuweli.” 23 Betuweli naata ke Rebeka faamaa ti. Ñiŋ moo seyoo, Milika ye wolu le wuluu Nahori la, Iburayima doomaa. 24 A la kaŋ foroyandi musoo*, meŋ too mu Rewuma ti, ye Teba le wuluu a la, Kahamu, Tahasi aniŋ Maaka.
