Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Genesis 22:8

And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

KJV

Dixit autem Abraham : Deus providebit sibi victimam holocausti, fili mi. Pergebant ergo pariter.

Vulgate

εἶπεν δὲ Ἀβραάμ Ὁ θεὸς ὄψεται ἑαυτῷ πρόβατον εἰς ὁλοκάρπωσιν, τέκνον. πορευθέντες δὲ ἀμφότεροι ἅμα

LXX

And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son: so they went both of them together.

ASV

וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אַבְרָהָ֔ם אֱלֹהִ֞ים יִרְאֶה לּ֥/וֹ הַ/שֶּׂ֛ה לְ/עֹלָ֖ה בְּנִ֑/י וַ/יֵּלְכ֥וּ שְׁנֵי/הֶ֖ם יַחְדָּֽו

Hebrew

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In this verse

People Abraham

In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַבְרָהָ֖ם
'brhm
proper_noun · 174×
בֶּן
bn
noun · 4909×
יַחְדָּ֑ו
ychdv
noun · 141×
יֵּ֥לֶךְ
ylk
verb · 1038×
יַּ֣רְא
yr'
verb · 1312×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
עֹלָ֖ה
'lh
noun · 288×
שְׁתֵּ֣י
shty
adjective · 765×
שֶׂ֖ה
shh
noun · 45×

Intertextual echoes

Quoted or echoed by 1 later passage.

  • John 1:29 · echo
    "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
    Genesis: God will provide the lamb — behold the Lamb of God

Themes

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§1819Christian hope takes up and fulfills the hope of the chosen people which has its origin and model in the hope of Abraham, who was blessed abundantly by the promises of God fulfilled in Isaac, and who was purified by the test of the sacrifice.86 "Hoping against hope, he believed, and thus became the father of many nations."87
§2572As a final stage in the purification of his faith, Abraham, "who had received the promises,"13 is asked to sacrifice the son God had given him. Abraham's faith does not weaken (“God himself will provide the lamb for a burnt offering."), for he "considered that God was able to raise men even from the dead."14 and so the father of believers is conformed to the likeness of the Fat…
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham. This is the most severe trial of faith recorded in Scripture. Abraham was commanded to sacrifice his only son — the son of promise, in whom all the promises of God were concentrated. His obedience was not blind or irrational, but rested on the persuasion that God could raise Isaac from the dead. The ram provide…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 1:19 — But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
  • Gen 18:14 — Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.
  • Gen 22:13 — 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
  • Gen 22:14 — And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
  • John 1:29 — The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
  • John 1:36 — And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!
  • Lev 1:3 — If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
  • Matt 19:26 — But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
  • Rev 5:12 — Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
  • Rev 7:14 — And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
  • Rev 13:8 — And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.