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What does Genesis 22:16 mean?
"and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,"
— Genesis 22:16 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Abraham 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.
Abraham called the name of that place Yahweh Will Provide. As it is said to this day, “On Yahweh’s mountain, it will be provided.”
Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
and said, “I have sworn by myself, says Yahweh, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,
that I will bless you greatly, and I will multiply your offspring greatly like the stars of the heavens, and like the sand which is on the seashore. Your offspring will possess the gate of his enemies.
All the nations of the earth will be blessed by your offspring, because you have obeyed my voice.”
So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at Beersheba.
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