Exodus 24:1

Hebrew Bible

12 The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.” 13 So Moses set out with Joshua his attendant, and Moses went up the mountain of God. 14 He told the elders, “Wait for us in this place until we return to you. Here are Aaron and Hur with you. Whoever has any matters of dispute can approach them.” 15 Moses went up the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Genesis 22:1

Hebrew Bible

3 Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about. 4 On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance. 5 So he said to his servants, “You two stay here with the donkey while the boy and I go up there. We will worship and then return to you. 6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and put it on his son Isaac. Then he took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them walked on together.

 Notes and References

"... There is an extensive String of connections between this E account of a revelation on Mount Horeb in Exodus 24 and the E account of the sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis 22. The two stories have a chain of ten verbs in common: “and he said,” “and he took... and he set,” “and he got up early,” “and he built an altar,” “and he put out his hand,” “and he/it was,” “and he/they got up,” “and he/they came,” “and he/they saw.” Here in Exodus Moses says to the elders, “Sit here... we'll come back to you.” There Abraham says the same words to the servant boys. And here servant boys appear as well. Both accounts use the term “from a distance”. Both use the term “to bow”. Both Moses and Abraham come up a mountain. Both have a burnt offering. In Genesis Abraham is rewarded because “you did this thing”; and the people in Exodus here promise that “We'll do all the things.” Abraham is rewarded because “you listened to my voice”; and here in Exodus the people “said with one voice,” and they say, “we'll listen” ..."

Friedman, Richard Elliott The Bible with Sources Revealed: A New View Into the Five Books of Moses (p. 160) Harper San Francisco, 2005

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