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OET (OET-RV)Then Abraham raised his head and looked around, and wow, there was a ram was behind him, caught by its horns in the thicket. So Abraham went and grabbed the ram and sacrificed it as a burntoffering instead of his son.
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BrLXXΚαὶ ἀναβλέψας Ἁβραὰμ τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ εἶδε, καὶ ἰδοὺ κριὸς εἷς κατεχόμενος ἐν φυτῷ Σαβὲκ τῶν κεράτων. Καὶ ἐπορεύθη Ἁβραὰμ, καὶ ἔλαβε τὸν κριὸν, καὶ ἁνήνεγκεν αὐτὸν εἰς ὁλοκάρπωσιν ἀντὶ Ἰσαὰκ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ. (Kai anablepsas Habraʼam tois ofthalmois autou eide, kai idou krios heis kateⱪomenos en futōi Sabek tōn keratōn. Kai eporeuthaʸ Habraʼam, kai elabe ton krion, kai hanaʸnegken auton eis holokarpōsin anti Isaʼak tou huiou autou. )
BrTrAnd Abraam lifted up his eyes and beheld, and lo! a ram caught by his horns in a [fn]plant of Sabec; and Abraam went and took the ram, and offered him up for a whole-burnt-offering in the place of Isaac his son.
ULTThen Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a ram was behind him, caught in the thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
USTThen Abraham looked around and there behind him he saw a ram that had its horns stuck in a bush. So he released Isaac, went over to the ram and untangled it. Then he killed it and burned it on the altar as a sacrifice to God in place of his son.
BSB § Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram [fn] in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
22:13Most MT manuscripts; other Hebrew manuscripts, SP, LXX, and Syriac saw one ram
OEBThen Abraham looked up, and he saw a ram caught in the thicket by his horns.
WEBBEAbraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and saw that behind him was a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering instead of his son.
NETAbraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
LSVAnd Abraham lifts up his eyes, and looks, and behold, a ram behind, seized in a thicket by its horns; and Abraham goes, and takes the ram, and causes it to ascend for a burnt-offering instead of his son;
FBVAbraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in some bushes. He brought the ram over and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
T4TThen Abraham looked up and saw that a ram was nearby, whose horns had been caught in a ◄thicket/clump of bushes►. So Abraham went over and grabbed the ram and killed it, and sacrificed it on the altar as a burnt offering, instead of his son.
LEBAnd Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked. And behold, a ram was caught in the thicket by his horns. And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
BBEAnd lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.
JPSAnd Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in the 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.
ASVAnd Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, behind him a ram caught in the 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.
DRAAbraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.
YLTAnd Abraham lifteth up his eyes, and looketh, and lo, a ram behind, seized in a thicket by its horns; and Abraham goeth, and taketh the ram, and causeth it to ascend for a burnt-offering instead of his son;
DrbyAnd Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind was a ram caught in the thicket by its horns; and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt-offering instead of his son.
RVAnd Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the 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.
WbstrAnd 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 for a burnt-offering in the stead of his son.
KJB-1769And 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.
KJB-1611And Abraham lifted vp his eyes, and looked, and beholde, behinde him a Ramme caught in a thicket by his hornes: And Abraham went and tooke the Ramme, and offered him vp for a burnt offering, in the stead of his sonne. (And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold, behind him a Ramme caught in a thicket by his horns: And Abraham went and took the Ramme, and offered him up for a burnt offering, in the stead of his son.)
BshpsAnd Abraham lifting vp his eyes, looked: and beholde, behynde hym there was a Ramme caught by the hornes in a thicket: and Abraham went & tooke the Ramme, and offered hym vp for a burnt offering in the steade of his sonne. (And Abraham lifting up his eyes, looked: and behold, behind him there was a Ramme caught by the horns in a thicket: and Abraham went and took the Ramme, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.)
GnvaAnd Abraham lifting vp his eyes, looked: and behold, there was a ramme behind him caught by the hornes in a bush. then Abraham went and tooke the ramme, and offered him vp for a burnt offering in the steade of his sonne. (And Abraham lifting up his eyes, looked: and behold, there was a ramme behind him caught by the horns in a bush. then Abraham went and took the ramme, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. )
CvdlThen Abraham lift vp his eyes, and sawe behynde him a ramme, holde fast by the hornes in the breres, and wente, and toke the ramme, and offred him for a brent sacrifice, in steade of his sonne. (Then Abraham lift up his eyes, and saw behind him a ramme, hold fast by the horns in the breres, and wente, and took the ramme, and offered him for a burnt sacrifice, in stead of his son.)
WyclAbraham reiside hise iyen, and he seiy `bihynde his bak a ram cleuynge bi hornes among breris, which he took, and offride brent sacrifice for the sone. (Abraham reiside his eyes, and he see `bihynde his bak a ram cleuynge by horns among breris, which he took, and offride burnt sacrifice for the sone.)
LuthDa hub Abraham seine Augen auf und sah einen Widder hinter ihm in der Hecke mit seinen Hörnern hangen; und ging hin und nahm den Widder und opferte ihn zum Brandopfer an seines Sohnes Statt. (So hub Abraham his Augen on and saw a Widder behind him in the/of_the Hecke with his Hörnern hangen; and went there and took the Widder and opferte him/it for_the Brandopfer at his sones Statt.)
ClVgLevavit Abraham oculos suos, viditque post tergum arietem inter vepres hærentem cornibus, quem assumens obtulit holocaustum pro filio.[fn] (Levavit Abraham oculos suos, viditque after tergum arietem between vepres hærentem cornibus, which assumens obtook holocaustum for filio. )
22.13Arietem. ALC. Historice. Aries qui pro Isaac immolatus est, non putavimus, sed verus est. Ideo magis putatur angelum eum aliunde attulisse, quam ibi de terra post sex dierum opera Dominum procreasse. Arietem inter vepres, etc. HIER. in Quæst. Hebr. Aquila veprem vel spinetum, posuit, etc., usque ad quod ita Hebraice dicitur.
22.13Arietem. ALC. Historice. Aries who for Isaac immolatus it_is, not/no putavimus, but verus it_is. Ideo magis putatur a_messenger/angel him aliunde attulisse, how there about earth/land after sex dierum opera Dominum procreasse. Arietem between vepres, etc. HIER. in Quæst. Hebr. Aquila veprem or spinetum, posuit, etc., until to that ita Hebraice it_is_said.
22:13 God provided a ram caught by its horns in a thicket for the sacrifice. God graciously allowed Abraham to substitute an animal sacrifice in place of Isaac. Later, all Israel would offer animals to the Lord, knowing that God’s grace had provided this substitution (Exod 29:10; Lev 4:15; 16:20-22). In the New Testament, God substituted his only son for all humanity; the perfect sacrifice was made once and for all (Isa 53:6, 10; John 1:29; Heb 7:27; 10:1-14; 1 Pet 3:18).
and=he/it_went ʼAⱱrāhām and=he/it_took DOM the,ram
For some languages it may be necessary to explicitly state that Abraham untied Isaac and took him off the altar before he sacrificed the ram. Do what is best in your language. Alternate translation: “So after releasing Isaac, he took the ram from the thicket” or “So he untied Isaac, went over to the ram and untangled it.”
Animals that were sacrificed to God as burnt offerings were killed first before they were burned on an altar. Make sure your translation does not sound like the ram was burned alive. If that is not clear, you could make some of the above implied information explicit in your translation. Alternate translation: “Then he killed the ram and burned it on the altar as a offering to God”
תַּ֥חַת בְּנֽוֹ
below/instead_of his/its=son
Alternate translation: “as a substitute for his son.”
Though the patriarch Isaac moved from place to place several times within southern Canaan, compared to his father Abraham and his son Jacob, Isaac appears to have been a bit of a homebody. In fact, unless Isaac resettled in places not recorded in Scripture, the farthest extent he ever traveled appears to have been only about 90 miles (113 km). Yet, as the child of God’s promise to Abraham to build a great nation from his descendants, Isaac’s relatively simple life served as a critical bridge from Abraham to the beginnings of the twelve tribes of Israel, who were descended from Isaac’s son Jacob. It is likely that Isaac was born at Beersheba (see Genesis 21:1-24), and later Abraham offered him as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah (located at Jerusalem; see 2 Chronicles 3:1). Then Abraham, Isaac, and those with them returned to Beersheba (Genesis 22:1-19). When Isaac reached adulthood, his father sent a servant to bring back a bride for him from Aram-naharaim, far north of Canaan. When his bride, Rebekah, arrived, Isaac had just come from Beer-lahai-roi and settled in the Negev (Genesis 24:62). Later Isaac resettled with Rebekah in Beer-lahai-roi, and this may have been where their twins son Esau and Jacob were born. A famine forced Isaac to go to Gerar (Genesis 26:1-6) in “the land of the Philistines.” The distinct people group known as the Philistines in later books of the Bible did not arrive until the time of the Judges, so the term here must have referred to another people group living in this region, and this is supported by the fact that King Abimelech’s name is Semitic, not Aegean (the likely origin of the later Philistines). While Isaac was there, he repeated his father’s error (Genesis 20) by lying to the king that his wife was only his sister. Isaac also became increasingly prosperous at Gerar, so the Philistines told him to leave their region. Isaac moved away from the town of Gerar and settled further away in the valley of Gerar. There he dug a well, but the Philistines claimed it for themselves, so he called it Esek, meaning “argument.” So Isaac’s men dug another well and called it Sitnah (meaning “hostility”), but it led to more quarreling, so he dug yet another well and called it Rehoboth (meaning “open space”). The locations of these two later wells are not certain, but they may have been located near Ruheibeh as shown on this map. Then Isaac moved to Beersheba and built an altar. He also dug a well there, and King Abimelech of the Philistines came and exchanged oaths of peace with him. It was likely at Beersheba that Isaac blessed his sons Esau and Jacob, and both sons eventually left Canaan (see “Jacob Goes to Paddan-Aram” map). When Jacob later returned, he traveled to Mamre near Hebron and reunited with Isaac. Sometime after this Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him there.
