Updated American Standard Version
Giving Bible readers what God said not what translators think God meant
Genesis 22:8 shows that God Himself would provide the Lamb, preserving Hebrew nuance and foreshadowing Christ as the ultimate sacrifice.
Genesis 22 identifies Isaac—not Ishmael—as Abraham’s “only son,” the covenant heir, and the prophetic type of Christ’s sacrifice.
God never intended Isaac to be sacrificed; He provided the substitute, foreshadowing Christ’s atonement and rejecting pagan child sacrifice.
