Kejadian 22:2
Konteks22:2 God 1 said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac 2 – and go to the land of Moriah! 3 Offer him up there as a burnt offering 4 on one of the mountains which I will indicate to 5 you.”
Kejadian 22:5
Konteks22:5 So he 6 said to his servants, “You two stay 7 here with the donkey while 8 the boy and I go up there. We will worship 9 and then return to you.” 10
[22:2] 1 tn Heb “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[22:2] 2 sn Take your son…Isaac. The instructions are very clear, but the details are deliberate. With every additional description the commandment becomes more challenging.
[22:2] 3 sn There has been much debate over the location of Moriah; 2 Chr 3:1 suggests it may be the site where the temple was later built in Jerusalem.
[22:2] 4 sn A whole burnt offering signified the complete surrender of the worshiper and complete acceptance by God. The demand for a human sacrifice was certainly radical and may have seemed to Abraham out of character for God. Abraham would have to obey without fully understanding what God was about.
[22:2] 5 tn Heb “which I will say to.”
[22:5] 6 tn Heb “And Abraham.” The proper name has been replaced in the translation by the pronoun (“he”) for stylistic reasons.
[22:5] 7 tn The Hebrew verb is masculine plural, referring to the two young servants who accompanied Abraham and Isaac on the journey.
[22:5] 8 tn The disjunctive clause (with the compound subject preceding the verb) may be circumstantial and temporal.
[22:5] 9 tn This Hebrew word literally means “to bow oneself close to the ground.” It often means “to worship.”
[22:5] 10 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.
