22:3 Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. 1 He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out 2 for the place God had spoken to him about.
22:1 Some time after these things God tested 3 Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am!” Abraham 4 replied.
1 tn Heb “Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey.”
2 tn Heb “he arose and he went.”
3 sn The Hebrew verb used here means “to test; to try; to prove.” In this passage God tests Abraham to see if he would be obedient. See T. W. Mann, The Book of the Torah, 44-48. See also J. L. Crenshaw, A Whirlpool of Torment (OBT), 9-30; and J. I. Lawlor, “The Test of Abraham,” GTJ 1 (1980): 19-35.
4 tn Heb “he”; the referent (Abraham) has been specified in the translation for clarity.