Genesis 22:12

And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the young man, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest G-d, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine ben yachid from Me.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11And the Malach Hashem called unto him out of Shomayim, and said, Avraham, Avraham: and he said, Hineini.

13And Avraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and hinei behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Avraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering TAKHAT (instead of) his son. + 22:13 Isa 53:8

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Cross References

Genesis 20:11And Avraham said, Because I thought, Surely the yirat Elohim is not in this place; and they will slay me on account of my isha.

Genesis 26:5Because Avraham obeyed My voice, and was shomer over My mishmeret (charge), My mitzvot, My chukkot, and My torot.

Exodus 20:20Ye shall not make beside Me elohei kesef, neither shall ye make for yourselves elohei zahav.

1 Samuel 15:22And Shmuel said, 1 Hath Hashem as great chefetz (delight) in olot and zevakhim, 1 as in obeying the voice of Hashem? 1 Hinei, to obey is better than zevach (sacrifice), 1 and to pay heed than the chelev eilim (fat of rams). 1

Job 5:19He shall deliver thee in shesh tzoros; 1 yea, in shivah there shall no rah touch thee. 1

Psalms 1:6For Hashem knoweth the Derech Tzaddikim, but the Derech Resha'im shall perish. + 1:6 The next Psalm says that the whole world, all the earth, is, or will be, the possession of Moshiach, and that Hashem assures Moshiach of this; therefore, the Great Commission ( Mt 28:19-20) was given to preach Moshiach to the ends of the earth that the whole world may hear.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 22:12-15

Isaac Rescued. ( b. c. 1872.) 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… Read the whole commentary →

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