¹⁹ Then God said, “Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son,^(A) and you will call him Isaac.^[a](B) I will establish my covenant with him^(C) as an everlasting covenant^(D) for his descendants after him.

²¹ But my covenant^(A) I will establish with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you^(B) by this time next year.”^(C)

³ Abraham gave the name Isaac^[a](A) to the son Sarah bore him. ⁴ When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him,^(B) as God commanded him. ⁵ Abraham was a hundred years old^(C) when his son Isaac was born to him.

⁶ Sarah said, “God has brought me laughter,^(D) and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me.” ⁷ And she added, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”^(E)

Hagar and Ishmael Sent Away

⁸ The child grew and was weaned,^(F) and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast. ⁹ But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham^(G) was mocking,^{(H) 10} and she said to Abraham, “Get rid of that slave woman^(I) and her son, for that woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac.”^(J)

¹¹ The matter distressed Abraham greatly because it concerned his son.^{(K) 12} But God said to him, “Do not be so distressed about the boy and your slave woman. Listen to whatever Sarah tells you, because it is through Isaac that your offspring^[b] will be reckoned.^(L)

² Then God said, “Take your son^(A), your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah.^(B) Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering^(C) on a mountain I will show you.^(D)”

³ Early the next morning^(E) Abraham got up and loaded his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about. ⁴ On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance. ⁵ He said to his servants, “Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.^(F)”

⁶ Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac,^(G) and he himself carried the fire and the knife.^(H) As the two of them went on together, ⁷ Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, “Father?”

“Yes, my son?” Abraham replied.

“The fire and wood are here,” Isaac said, “but where is the lamb^(I) for the burnt offering?”

⁸ Abraham answered, “God himself will provide^(J) the lamb^(K) for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

⁹ When they reached the place God had told him about,^(L) Abraham built an altar^(M) there and arranged the wood^(N) on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar,^(O) on top of the wood.