10 And Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as a sacrifice.
11 At that moment the angel of the lord called to him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am!”
12 “Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”
13 Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
14 Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means “the lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of the lord it will be provided.”
15 Then the angel of the lord called again to Abraham from heaven.
16 “This is what the lord says: Because you have obeyed me and have not withheld even your son, your only son, I swear by my own name that