Genesis 22:8
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
American King James Version (AKJV)
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
American Standard Version (ASV)
And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt-offering, my son. So they went both of them together.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
And Abraham said, God himself will give the lamb for the burned offering: so they went on together.
Webster's Revision
And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt-offering: so they went both of them together.
World English Bible
Abraham said, "God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son." So they both went together.
English Revised Version (ERV)
And Abraham said, God will provide himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son: so they went both of them together.
Clarke's Genesis 22:8 Bible Commentary
My son, God will provide himself a lamb - Here we find the same obedient unshaken faith for which this pattern of practical piety was ever remarkable. But we must not suppose that this was the language merely of faith and obedience; the patriarch spoke prophetically, and referred to that Lamb of God which He had provided for himself, who in the fullness of time should take away the sin of the world, and of whom Isaac was a most expressive type. All the other lambs which had been offered from the foundation of the world had been such as Men chose and Men offered; but This was the Lamb which God had provided - emphatically, The Lamb Of God.
Wesley's Genesis 22:8 Bible Commentary
22:8 My son, God will provide himself a lamb — This was the language either, 1. Of his obedience; we must offer the lamb which God has appointed now to be offered; thus giving him this general rule of submission to the divine will to prepare him for the application of it to himself. Or, 2. Of his faith; whether he meant it so or no, this proved to be the meaning of it; a sacrifice was provided instead of Isaac. Thus, 1. Christ the great sacrifice of atonement was of God's providing: when none in heaven or earth could have found a lamb for that burnt-offering, God himself found the ransom. 2. All our sacrifices of acknowledgement are of God's providing too; 'tis he that prepares the heart. The broken and contrite spirit is a sacrifice of God, of his providing.