Liber Genesis

Genesis, chapter 22, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 22 Vulgate

   1 Quae postquam gesta sunt, tentavit Deus Abraham et di xit ad eum: "Abraham" Ille respondit: "Adsum"
   2 Ait: "Tolle filium tuum unigenitum, quem diligis, Isaac et vade in terram Moria; atque offer eum ibi in holocaustum super unum montium, quem monstravero tibi"
   3 Igitur Abraham de nocte consurgens stravit asinum suum ducens secum duos iuvenes suos et Isaac filium suum. Cumque concidisset ligna in holocaustum, surrexit et abiit ad locum, quem praeceperat ei Deus.
   4 Die autem tertio, elevatis oculis, vidit locum procul
   5 dixitque ad pueros suos: "Exspectate hic cum asino. Ego et puer illuc usque properantes, postquam adoraverimus, revertemur ad vos"
   6 Tulit quoque ligna holocausti et imposuit super Isaac filium suum; ipse vero portabat in manibus ignem et cultrum. Cumque duo pergerent simul,
   7 dixit Isaac Abrahae patri suo: "Pater mi" Ille respondit: "Quid vis, fili?" "Ecce, inquit, ignis et ligna; ubi est victima holocausti?"
   8 Dixit Abraham: "Deus providebit sibi victimam holocausti, fili mi" Pergebant ambo pariter;
   9 et venerunt ad locum, quem ostenderat ei Deus, in quo aedificavit Abraham altare et desuper ligna composuit. Cumque colligasset Isaac filium suum, posuit eum in altari super struem lignorum
   10 extenditque Abraham manum et arripuit cultrum, ut immolaret filium suum.
   11 Et ecce angelus Domini de caelo clamavit: "Abraham, Abraham" Qui respondit: "Adsum"
   12 Dixitque: "Non extendas manum tuam super puerum neque facias illi quidquam. Nunc cognovi quod times Deum et non pepercisti filio tuo unigenito propter me"
   13 Levavit Abraham oculos suos viditque arietem unum inter vepres haerentem cornibus; quem assumens obtulit holocaustum pro filio.
   14 Appellavitque nomen loci illius: "Dominus videt" Unde usque hodie dicitur: "In monte Dominus videtur"
   15 Vocavit autem angelus Domini Abraham secundo de caelo et dixit:
   16 "Per memetipsum iuravi, dicit Dominus: quia fecisti hanc rem et non pepercisti filio tuo unigenito,
   17 benedicam tibi et multiplicabo semen tuum sicut stellas caeli et velut arenam, quae est in litore maris. Possidebit semen tuum portas inimicorum suorum,
   18 et benedicentur in semine tuo omnes gentes terrae, quia oboedisti voci meae"
   19 Reversus est Abraham ad pueros suos, et surrexerunt abieruntque Bersabee simul, et habitavit Abraham in Bersabee.
   20 His ita gestis, nuntiatum est Abrahae quod Melcha quoque genuisset filios Nachor fratri suo:
   21 Us primogenitum et Buz fratrem eius et Camuel patrem Aram
   22 et Cased et Azau, Pheldas quoque et Iedlaph
   23 ac Bathuel, de quo nata est Rebecca. Octo istos genuit Melcha Nachor fratri Abrahae.
   24 Concubina vero illius, nomine Reuma, peperit Tabee et Gaham et Tahas et Maacha.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
   2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
   3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
   4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
   5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you.
   6 And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.
   7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
   8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
   9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
   10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
   11 And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
   12 And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.
   13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.
   14 And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
   15 ¶ And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,
   16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son:
   17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
   18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.
   19 So Abraham returned unto his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
   20 ¶ And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she hath also born children unto thy brother Nahor;
   21 Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,
   22 And Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.
   23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.
   24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.