Translations
KJVPrimary
King James VersionAnd Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
F.O.G.Secondary
The F.O.GYitzchak spoke to Avraham his father and said, "My father!" He answered, "Here I am, my son." He said, "Behold — the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the ascending-offering?"
F.O.G.M.
F.O.G MessageThen Isaac broke the silence: "Father?" "Yes, my son?" Abraham replied. "The fire and the wood are here," Isaac said, "but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?"
BSB
Berean Standard BibleThen Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
Footnotes
Avraham's hinneni ("Here I am") to his son mirrors his same word to Elohim in v. 1. He holds himself wholly present to both the divine command and the anguish of the child's question — the same man, the same word, two directions of love held in impossible tension.
