““Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.””
Genesis 22:5
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This promise carried Abraham up Moriah
Years later God told Abraham to offer Isaac on a mountain in Moriah, and Abraham obeyed while holding on to this promise about the boy. At the mountain he told his servants, "The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you" (Genesis 22:5). He said we before he had climbed a step.
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God tested Israel at Sinai with the same Hebrew verb, nasah (H5254), that opens this verse. Moses told them, "For God has come to test you, so that the fear of Him may be before you" (Exodus 20:20), and the angel told Abraham, "now I know that you fear God" (Genesis 22:12). So Israel heard Abraham's test as their own story.
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