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Your Son Isaac

Your Son Isaac

Genesis 22:2

‎Your only son Isaac, whom you love emphasizes the special relationship between Abraham and Isaac and underlines the harshness of the demand to sacrifice Isaac. The expression your only son is emphatic and means the only son you have, which reb translates “your one and only son.” Ishmael, of course, is also Abraham’s son, but Isaac is the heir to the promise made to Abraham. Now that Ishmael has been sent away, Isaac is the only son. Whom you love is a second expression added to son. This is the first occurrence of the word love in Genesis.

Reyburn, William David, and Euan McG. Fry. A Handbook on Genesis. New York: United Bible Societies, 1998. Print. UBS Handbook Series.
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