The Lord said to him: ‘Abraham, Abraham’! He replied: ‘Yes’?

He said to him: ‘Take your son, your dear one whom you love — Isaac — and go to a high land. Offer him on one of the mountains which I will show you’.

So he got up early in the morning, loaded his donkey, and took with him two servants as well as his son Isaac. He chopped the wood for the sacrifice and came to the place on the third day. He saw the place from a distance.

When he reached a well of water, he ordered his servants: ‘Stay here with the donkey while I and the child go on. After we have worshiped, we will return to you’.

He took the wood for the sacrifice and placed it on his son Isaac’s shoulders. He took fire and a knife in his hands. The two of them went together to that place.

Isaac said to his father: ‘Father’. He replied: ‘Yes, my son’? He said to him: ‘Here are the fire, the knife, and the wood, but where is the sheep for the sacrifice, father’?

He said: ‘The Lord will provide for himself a sheep for the sacrifice, my son’. When he neared the place of the mountain of the Lord,

he built an altar and placed the wood on the altar. Then he tied up his son Isaac, placed him on the wood which was on the altar, and reached out his hands to take the knife in order to sacrifice his son Isaac.

Then I stood in front of him and in front of the prince of Mastema. The Lord said: ‘Tell him not to let his hand go down on the child and not to do anything to him because I know that he is one who fears the Lord’.

So I called to him from heaven and said to him: ‘Abraham, Abraham’! He was startled and said: ‘Yes’?

I said to him: ‘Do not lay your hands on the child and do not do anything to him because now I know that you are one who fears the Lord. You have not refused me your first-born son’.

The prince of Mastema was put to shame. Then Abraham looked up and saw a ram caught; it was coming with its horns. Abraham went and took the ram. He offered it as a sacrifice instead of his son.

Abraham named that place ‘The Lord Saw’ so that it is named ‘The Lord Saw’. It is Mt. Zion.

The Lord again called to Abraham by his name from heaven, just as we had appeared in order to speak to him in the Lord’s name.

He said: ‘I have sworn by myself, says the Lord: because you have performed this command and have not refused me your first-born son whom you love, I will indeed bless you and will indeed multiply your descendants like the stars in the sky and like the sands on the seashore. Your descendants will possess the cities of their enemies.

All the nations of the earth will be blessed through your descendants because of the fact that you have obeyed my command. I have made known to everyone that you are faithful to me in everything that I have told you. Go in peace’.

Then Abraham went to his servants. They set out and went together to Beersheba. Abraham lived at the well of the oath.

He used to celebrate this festival joyfully for seven days during all the years. He named it the festival of the Lord in accord with the seven days during which he went and returned safely.

This is the way it is ordained and written on the heavenly tablets regarding Israel and his descendants: (they are) to celebrate this festival for seven days with festal happiness.