New International Version

Then God said, "Take your son, your only son, whom you love--Isaac--and go to
the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on a mountain I will
show you."

King James Bible

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get
thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of
the mountains which I will tell thee of.
Offering

In the Hebrew, an offering, minchah, is distinguished from a sacrifice, zebah, as

being bloodless. In our version, however, the word offering is often used for a
sacrifice, as in the case of peace offerings, sin offerings, etc. Of the proper
offerings, that is, the unbloody offerings, some accompanied the sacrifices, as
flour, wine, salt; others were not connected with any sacrifices. Like the
sacrifices, some, as the first fruits and tenths, were obligatory; other were
voluntary offerings of devotion. Various sorts of offerings are enumerated in the
books of Moses. Among these are,

1. Fine flour, or meal;

2. Cakes baked in an oven;

3. Cakes baked on a plate or shallow pan;

4. Cakes cooked in deep vessel by frying in oil, (English version, "frying pan,"
though some understand here a gridiron or a plate with holes;)

5. First fruits of the new corn, either in the simple state or prepared by parching
or roasting in the ear, or out of the ear. The cakes were kneaded with olive oil, or
fried in a pan, or only dipped in oil after they were baked. The bread offered for
the altar was without leaven; for leaven was never offered on the altar, nor with
the sacrifices, Le 2:11-12. But they might make presents of common bread to the
priests and ministers of the temple. Honey was never offered with the sacrifices,
but it might be presented alone, as first fruits, Le 2:11-12. Those who offered
living victims were not excused from giving meal, wine, and salt, together with the
greater sacrifices. Those who offered only oblations of bread or of meal offered
also oil, incense, salt, and wine, which were in a manner their seasoning. The
priest in waiting received the offerings from the hand of him who brought them,
laid a part on the altar, and reserved the rest for his own subsistence as a
minister of the Lord. Nothing was wholly burned up but the incense, of which the
priest retained none. See Le 2:2,13 Numbers 15:4-5.

In some cases the law required only offerings of corn or bread, as when they
offered the first fruits of harvest, whether offered solemnly by the nation, or as the
devotion of private persons. The unbloody offerings signified, in general, not so
much expiation, which was the peculiar meaning of the sacrifices, as the
consecration of the offerer, and all that he had to Jehovah. Only in the case of
the poor man, who could not afford the expense of sacrificing an animal, was an
unbloody offering accepted in its stead

God
‫ו ָ ְ֣האֱֹל ִ֔הים‬ (wə·hā·’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative
“Take
‫קַח־‬ (qaḥ-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3947: To take
Genesis 22:2
HEB: ‫ נָ֠א אֶת־‬ ‫קַח־‬  ‫ו ַ ֡י ֹּאמֶר‬
NAS: He said, Take now your son,
KJV: And he said, Take now thy son,
INT: said Take now your son

your son,”
‫ ִּבנ ְָ֨ך‬ (bin·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son
HEB: ֤‫ד ָך‬
ְ ‫חֽי‬
ִ ְ ‫ אֶת־ י‬ ‫ִב ִּנ ְ ָ֨ך‬ ‫נָ֠א אֶת־‬
NAS: now your son, your only
KJV: Take now thy son, thine only
INT: Take now your son your only whom

[God] said,
‫ו ַּ֡י ֹאמֶר‬ (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine
singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“your only
֤‫י ְחִ ֽידְ ָך‬ (yə·ḥî·ḏə·ḵā)
Adjective - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3173: United, sole, beloved, lonely, the life

son Isaac,
‫י ִ ְצ ָ֔חק‬ (yiṣ·ḥāq)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3327: Isaac -- 'he laughs', son of Abraham and Sarah

whom
‫ ֲאׁשֶר־‬ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in
order that

you love,
‫ָא ֙ ַהב ְָּ֙ת‬ (’ā·haḇ·tā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 157: To have affection f
ָּ֙ ְ ‫א ֙ ַהב‬
HEB:  ‫אֶת־ ִיצ ְ חָ֔ק‬ ‫ת‬ ָ  ‫חֽי ְד ָך֤ אֲֶשֶׁר־‬
ִ ְ‫י‬
NAS: son, whom you love, Isaac,
KJV: [son] Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee
INT: your only whom love Isaac and go
and go
‫ ְולְֶך־‬ (wə·leḵ-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

to
‫אֶל־‬ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

the land
‫ ֶ ֖א ֶרץ‬ (’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

of Moriah.
‫הַּמ ִֹר ָּי֑ה‬ (ham·mō·rî·yāh)
Article | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4179: Moriah -- a mountain where Isaac was to be sacrificed

Offer him
‫ ְו ַהע ֲֵל֤הּו‬ (wə·ha·‘ă·lê·hū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular | third person
masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

there
֙‫ׁשָם‬ (šām)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 8033: There, then, thither

as a burnt offering
‫לְע ֹ ָ֔לה‬ (lə·‘ō·lāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5930: Whole burnt offering

on
‫ ֚ ַעל‬ (‘al)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

one
‫ַאחד‬
֣ ַ  (’a·ḥaḏ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 259: United, one, first

of the mountains
‫הֶ ֽה ִָ֔רים‬ (he·hā·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2022: Mountain, hill, hill country

I will show
‫א ֹמַ ֥ר‬ (’ō·mar)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

you.”
‫אֵלֶ ֽיָך׃‬ (’ê·le·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to
(2) Take now.--Now is not an adverb of time, but an interjection of entreaty,
usually coupled with requests, and intended to soften them. It thus makes the
words more an exhortation than a command.

Thine only son Isaac.--The words in the original are more emphatic, being,
"Take, I pray, thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac." If
childlessness was so unendurable in old time to Abraham (Genesis 15:2), what
would it be now, after so many years of enjoyment of a son, and after giving up
Ishmael for his sake (Genesis 17:18)?

The land of Moriah.--Moriah may either mean Jah is teacher (see Note

on Genesis 12:6), or Jah is provider. The first is supported by Isaiah 2:3, where
the verb is rendered will teach; but the second agrees best with Genesis
22:8; Genesis 22:14. If this be the meaning, the name would be derived from this
event, and would signify the place where "Jehovah will Himself provide the
sacrifice." It has been suggested by many able commentators, that the place
meant was Moreh in Sichem, and that the site of the sacrifice was, as the
Samaritans affirmed, the natural altar upon the summit of Mount Gerizim. But as
Abraham and Isaac reached the spot on the third day, and evidently at an early
hour, Gerizim is too remote from Beer-sheba for this to be possible Even
Jerusalem is distant enough, as the journey from Beer-sheba takes twenty and a
half hours; and travellers in those days had to cook their own food, and prepare
their own sleeping accommodation. We may notice also, that Moriah is described
as "a land," in some part of which Abraham was to be shown the special
mountain intended for the sacrifice; Moreh, on the contrary, was a place where
Abraham had lived, and which was therefore well known to him.
Offer him there for a burnt offering.--Hengstenberg and others have argued
that Abraham was not to kill Isaac, but to surrender him spiritually to God, and
sanctify him by a burnt offering. But this is contradicted by the narrative itself
(Genesis 22:10), and by the passage in the Epistle to the Hebrews referred to
above, where the victory of Abraham's faith is described as consisting in the
belief, that even though Isaac were killed, nevertheless the promise would still in
some Divine manner be fulfilled in him.