1 After these events, after Isaac and Ishmael had quarreled, Ishmael said, 'It is right that I should be my father’s heir, since I am his first-born son.' But Isaac said, 'It is right that I should be my father's heir; because I am the son of Sarah his wife, while you are the son of Hagar; my mother's maidservant.' Ishmael answered and said, 'I am more worthy than you, because I was circumcised at the age of thirteen. And if I had wished to refuse, I would not have handed myself over to be circumcised. But you were circumcised at the age of eight days. If you had been aware, perhaps you would not have handed yourself over to be circumcised.' Isaac answered and said, 'Behold, today I am thirty-seven years old, and if the Holy One, blessed be He, were to ask all my members I would not refuse.' These words were immediately heard before the Lord of the world, and at once the Memra of the Lord tested Abraham and said to him, 'Abraham!' And he said to him, 'Here I am.' 2 He said, 'Take your son, your only one, Isaac whom you love, and go to the land of worship, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you.' 3 Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his ass and took with him his two servant boys Eleazer and Ishmael and his son Isaac. He cut wood of the olive tree, the fig tree, and the palm tree, which are suitable for the burnt offering, and he rose and went to the place of which the Lord had told him. 4 On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the Cloud of Glory enveloping the mountain, and he recognized it from afar. 5 And Abraham said to his servants, 'Wait here with the ass, while the lad and I betake ourselves over there to find out if that which was announced to me—so shall your children be—will be fulfilled. We will bow down to the Lord of the world, and we will return to you.' 6 Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on Isaac his son, and he took the fire and the knife in his own hand; and the two of them went together. 7 Isaac spoke to his father Abraham, and said, 'Father!' And he said, 'Here I am my son.' He said, 'Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?' 8 Abraham said, 'The Lord will choose for himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.' And the two of them went together with a perfect heart. 9 They came to the place of which the Lord had told him, and there Abraham rebuilt the altar which Adam had built and which had been demolished by the waters of the Flood. Noah rebuilt it, but it was demolished in the generation of the Division. He arranged the wood upon it, and tied Isaac his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood. 10 Abraham put forth his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. Isaac spoke up and said to his father: 'Tie me well lest I struggle because of the anguish of my soul,⁠a with the result that a blemish will be found in your offering, and I will be thrust into the pit of destruction.' The eyes of Abraham were looking at the eyes of Isaac, and the eyes of Isaac were looking at the angels on high. Isaac saw them but Abraham did not see them. The angels on high exclaimed: 'Come, see two unique ones who are in the world; one is slaughtering, and one is being slaughtered; the one who slaughters does not hesitate, and the one who is being slaughtered stretches forth his neck.' 11 But the angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said to him: 'Abraham, Abraham!' And he said 'Here I am.' 12 And he said, 'Do not put forth your hand against the boy, and do not do him any harm, for it is now manifest before me that you fear the Lord, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me.' 13 Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw one ram—the one that had been created at twilight when the world was completed—caught by its horns in the dense branches of a tree. Abraham went and took it and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son. 14 Abraham gave thanks and prayed there in that place, and said: 'I beseech, by the mercy from before you, O Lord! It is manifest before you that there was no deviousness in my heart, and that I sought to perform your decree with joy. Therefore, when the children of Isaac my son enter into a time of distress, remember them, and answer them, and redeem them. All these generations to come will say, “On this mountain Abraham tied his son Isaac, and there the Shekinah of the Lord was revealed to him.”' 15 The angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven 16 and said, 'By my Memra I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing and have not refused your son, your only one, 17 I will bless you abundantly and multiply your children as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore, and your children shall inherit the cities of those who hate them.' 18 All the peoples of the earth shall be blessed because of the merits of your children, because you obeyed my word.' 19 The angels on high took Isaac and brought him to the schoolhouse of Shem the Great, and he was there three years. On that day Abraham returned to his servants, and they arose and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt in Beer-sheba. 20 After these things, after Abraham had tied Isaac, Satan went and told Sarah that Abraham had slaughtered Isaac. And Sarah arose and cried out and was choked and died of anguish. Abraham came and passed the night on the way; and Abraham was told: 'Behold, Milcah also has given birth; by the merit of her sister she was able to bear children to your brother Nahor: 21 Uz, his first-born, Buz his brother, Kemuel, master of the Aramean magicians, 22 Chesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph, and Bethuel.' 23 Bethuel begot Rebekah. These eight Milcah bore to Nahor, Abraham’s brother. 24 His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also bore children: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.