Daily Readings
THURSDAY, JULY 02, 2009
Liturgical Year B
First Reading - Gen 22:1b-19
1Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
2 He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and go into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him
for an holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will show thee.
3 So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: and took
with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for
the holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.
4 And on the third day, lifting up his eyes, he saw the place afar off.
5 And he said to his young men: Stay you here with the ass: I
and the boy will go with speed as far as yonder, and after we have
worshipped, will return to you.
6 And he took the wood for the holocaust, and laid it upon Isaac
his son: and he himself carried in his hands fire and a sword. And as
they two went on together,
7 Isaac said to his father: My father. And he answered: What
wilt thou, son? Behold, saith he, fire and wood: where is the victim
for the holocaust?
8 And Abraham said: God will provide himself a victim for an holocaust, my son. So they went on together.
9 And they came to the place which God had shown him, where he
built an altar, and laid the wood in order upon it: and when he had
bound Isaac his son, he laid him on the altar upon the pile of wood.
10 And he put forth his hand and took the sword, to sacrifice his son.
11 And behold an angel of the Lord from heaven called to him, saying: Abraham, Abraham. And he answered: Here I am.
12 And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do
thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not
spared thy only begotten son for my sake.
13 Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram
amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and
offered for a holocaust instead of his son.
14 And he called the name of that place, The Lord seeth. Whereupon even to this day it is said: In the mountain the Lord will see.
15 And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven, saying:
16 By my own self have I sworn, saith the Lord: because thou
hast done this thing, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my
sake:
17 I will bless thee, and I will multiply thy seed as the stars
of heaven, and as the sand that is by the sea shore: thy seed shall
possess the gates of their enemies.
18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed, because thou hast obeyed my voice.
19 Abraham returned to his young men, and they went to Bersabee together, and he dwelt there.
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