---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Genesis from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 22
verse_count: 28
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Genesis, chap. 22, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Genesis 22

*Abraham commanded to offer Isaac— His will ingness accepted Relieved by divine, interposition— Names of Nahors children.*

**1** And it came to pass after these things, that God did try Abraham and said unto him, Abraham; and Abraham said, Behold, here am I.
**2** And the Lord said, Take now thy son, thine only 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 of which I will tell thee.
**3** And Abraham rose up early in the morning and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son,
**4** And clave the wood for the burnt offering; and rose up, and went unto the place of which God had told him.
**5** Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.
**6** And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide you here with the ass, and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come to you again.
**7** And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon his back; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and Isaac his son; and they went both of them together.
**8** And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father! And he said, Here am I, my son.
**9** And he said, Behold the fire and the wood; but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
**10** And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering. So they went both of them together: and they came to the place of which God had told him.
**11** And Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar, upon the wood.
**12** And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son.
**13** And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham! Abraham! And Abraham said. Here am I.
**14** And the angel said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him;
**15** For now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only Isaac from me
**16** And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, behind a thicket, there was a ram caught in it by his horns.
**17** And Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering, in the stead of his son.
**18** And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah -jireh as it is said unto this day, In the mountain of the Lord it shall be seen.
**19** And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said,
**20** Thus saith the Lord, I have sworn by myself, because that thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only Isaac from me;
**21** That in blessing I will bless thee; and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand upon the sea-shore.
**22** And thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; -, because thou hast obeyed my voice.
**23** So Abraham returned unto hii young men, and they rose up and went to Beer-sheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
**24** And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying,
**25** Behold, Milcah, she hath also borne children unto thy brother Nahor; Huz is his first-born, and Buz is his brother,
**26** And Kemuel is the father of Aram, and Chesed, and Huz and Bildad and Jidlaph, and Bethuel;
**27** And Bethuel begat Rebekah.
**28** These eight Milcah did bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother; and his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also Tebah, and Gaham Thahash, and Maachah.