When they arrived at the place where God had told them to go, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. Then he tied his son , Issac, and laid him on the altar on top of the wood. Abraham picked up the knife to kill his son as as a sacrifice. At that moment the angel of the Lord called on him from heaven, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Yes,” Abraham replied. “Here I am !”
“Don’t lay a hand on the boy!” the angel said. “Do not hurt him in any way, for now I know that you truly fear God. You have not withheld from me even your son, your only son.”
Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket. So he took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering in place of his son. Abraham named the place Yahweh-Yire) (which means ” the Lord will provide”). To this day, people still use that name as a proverb: “On the mountain of Lord it will be provided.” (vv. 9-14, NLT)