Kejadian 22:3-6

22:3 Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. ¹  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 ²  for the place God had spoken to him about.

22:4 On the third day Abraham caught sight of ³  the place in the distance. 22:5 So he ⁴  said to his servants, “You two stay ⁵  here with the donkey while ⁶  the boy and I go up there. We will worship ⁷  and then return to you.” ⁸ 

22:6 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, ⁹  and the two of them walked on together.

[22:3]  ¹ tn Heb “Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his donkey.”

[22:3]  ² tn Heb “he arose and he went.”

[22:4]  ³ tn Heb “lifted up his eyes and saw.”

[22:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “And Abraham.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.

[22:5]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew verb is masculine plural, referring to the two young servants who accompanied Abraham and Isaac on the journey.

[22:5]  ⁶ tn The disjunctive clause (with the compound subject preceding the verb) may be circumstantial and temporal.

[22:5]  ⁷ tn This Hebrew word literally means “to bow oneself close to the ground.” It often means “to worship.”

[22:5]  ⁸ sn It is impossible to know what Abraham was thinking when he said, “we will…return to you.” When he went he knew (1) that he was to sacrifice Isaac, and (2) that God intended to fulfill his earlier promises through Isaac. How he reconciled those facts is not clear in the text. Heb 11:17-19 suggests that Abraham believed God could restore Isaac to him through resurrection.

[22:6]  ⁹ sn He took the fire and the knife in his hand. These details anticipate the sacrifice that lies ahead.