“Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the heights that I will point out to you.”
So early next morning, Abraham saddled his ass and took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for the burnt offering, and he set out for the place of which God had told him.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישכם
376
אברהם
248
בבקר
304
ויחבש
326
אתחמרו
655
ויקח
124
אתשני
761
נעריו
336
אתו
407
ואת
407
יצחק
208
בנו
58
ויבקע
188
עצי
170
עלה
105
ויקם
156
וילך
66
אלהמקום
222
אשראמרלו
778
האלהים
91
Genesis 22:4
Gematria: 2982
ביוםהשלישיוישאאברהםאתעיניוויראאתהמקוםמרחק
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place from afar.
Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. He himself took the firestone ” and the knife; and the two walked off together.
Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “Father!” And he answered, “Yes, my son.” And he said, “Here are the firestone and the wood; but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יצחק
208
אלאברהם
279
אביו
19
ויאמר
257
אבי
13
ויאמר
257
הנני
115
בני
62
ויאמר
257
הנה
60
האש
306
והעצים
221
ואיה
22
השה
310
לעלה
135
Genesis 22:8
Gematria: 1855
ויאמראברהםאלהיםיראהלוהשהלעלהבניוילכושניהםיחדו
And Abraham said, “It is God who will see to the sheep for this burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them walked on together.
They arrived at the place of which God had told him. Abraham built an altar there; he laid out the wood; he bound his son Isaac; he laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויבאו
25
אלהמקום
222
אשר
501
אמרלו
277
האלהים
91
ויבן
68
שם
340
אברהם
248
אתהמזבח
463
ויערך
306
אתהעצים
616
ויעקד
190
אתיצחק
609
בנו
58
וישם
356
אתו
407
עלהמזבח
162
ממעל
180
לעצים
240
Genesis 22:10
Gematria: 2850
וישלחאברהםאתידוויקחאתהמאכלתלשחטאתבנו
And Abraham picked up the knife to slay his son.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וישלח
354
אברהם
248
אתידו
421
ויקח
124
אתהמאכלת
897
לשחט
347
אתבנו
459
Genesis 22:11
Gematria: 2091
ויקראאליומלאךיהוהמןהשמיםויאמראברהםאברהםויאמרהנני
Then a messenger of יהוה called to him from heaven: “Abraham! Abraham!” And he answered, “Here I am.”
“Do not raise your hand against the boy, or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your favored one, from Me.”
When Abraham looked up, his eye fell upon a a Reading ’eḥad with many Heb. mss. and ancient versions; text ’aḥar “after.” ram, caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering in place of his son.
And Abraham named that site Adonai-yireh, Adonai-yireh I.e., “יהוה will see”; cf. v. 8. whence the present saying, “On the mount of יהוה there is vision.” On the mount of יהוה there is vision Heb. be-har y-h-w-h yera’eh.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויקרא
317
אברהם
248
שםהמקום
531
ההוא
17
יהוהיראה
242
אשר
501
יאמר
251
היום
61
בהר
207
יהוה
26
יראה
216
Genesis 22:15
Gematria: 1958
ויקראמלאךיהוהאלאברהםשניתמןהשמים
The messenger of יהוה called to Abraham a second time from heaven,
I will bestow My blessing upon you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven and the sands on the seashore; and your descendants shall seize the gates of their foes.
Word-by-Word Analysis
כיברך
252
אברכך
243
והרבה
218
ארבה
208
אתזרעך
698
ככוכבי
78
השמים
395
וכחול
70
אשר
501
עלשפת
880
הים
55
וירש
516
זרעך
297
את
401
שער
570
איביו
29
Genesis 22:18
Gematria: 2938
והתברכובזרעךכלגוייהארץעקבאשרשמעתבקלי
All the nations of the earth shall bless themselves by your descendants, because you have obeyed My command.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
והתברכו
639
בזרעך
299
כל
50
גויי
29
הארץ
296
עקב
172
אשר
501
שמעת
810
בקלי
142
Cross-ReferencesSeed Promise
Acts 3:25— In thy seed shall all kindreds be blessed
Galatians 3:16— To Abraham and his seed
Hebrews 6:13-14— When God made promise to Abraham
Genesis 26:4— In thy seed shall all nations be blessed
And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore [sons]—Tebah, Gaham, and Tahash—and [a daughter,] [a daughter] As implied. In the Bible, the name Maacah is given to five or six other persons—all of whom are women. Biblical genealogies are known to identify a lineage by a woman’s name—especially at the end of a list of segments. Maacah.