• Variant translations of verse 14:
• And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
• Douay-Rheims Bible
• So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
• New International Version (1984).
• Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means "the LORD will provide"). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
• New Living Translation (2007)
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son. And the angel of the LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I. And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son. And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen." in the context of "Account of the Binding of Isaac, Genesis 22:10 - 14 (KJV)
• Variant translations of verse 14:
• And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
• Douay-Rheims Bible
• So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
• New International Version (1984).
• Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yireh (which means "the LORD will provide"). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: "On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided."
• New Living Translation (2007)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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