And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.
and Abraham putteth forth his hand, and taketh the knife--to slaughter his son.
And Abraham stretched out his hand, and took the knife to slaughter his son.
Genesis — The book of beginnings. Creation, fall, flood, covenant, election, providence — eleven generational seams stitch one unbroken story from heaven-and-earth to a coffin in Egypt.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Voices2
The father's hand stretched out the knife over his son, and the father's heart struck the blow that the sentence might not fail of being carried out; he feared lest the stroke should miss, lest his right hand should fail. He felt the movings of fatherly affection, but did not shrink from the work of submission, and hastened his obedience, even when he heard the voice from heaven.
Ambrose of Milan· On the Decease of His Brother Satyrus, Book 2, Section 97, 397patristic
And Abraham stretched forth his hand,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
The verses this one reaches6
Was not our father Abraham justified by what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?
By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son,
and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
And through your offspring all nations of the earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.”
It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.
We all like sheep have gone astray, each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all.
