12 “Do not lay your hand on the boy,” said the angel. “Do not do the least thing to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you did not withhold from me your son, your only one.”
13 Abraham looked up and saw a single ram caught by its horns in the thicket. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14 Abraham named that place Yahweh-yireh; hence people today say, “On the mountain the Lord will provide.”
15 A second time the angel of the Lord called to Abraham from heaven
16 and said: “I swear by my very self—oracle of the Lord—that because you acted as you did in not withholding from me your son, your only one,
17 I will bless you and make your descendants as countless as the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore; your descendants will take possession of the gates of their enemies,
18 and in your descendants all the nations of the earth will find blessing, because you obeyed my command.”