영어성경공부 (창세기 22장)

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Genesis 22

Abraham Tested

 

1. Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, 'Abraham!' 'Here I am,' he replied.

2. Then God said, 'Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.'

3. Early the next morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took with him two of his servants and his son Isaac. When he had cut enough wood for the burnt offering, he set out for the place God had told him about.

* saddle : 안장을 얹다

* set out for : ~을 향해 나서다

 - set out : 출발하다[(여행을) 시작하다], (일, 과제 등에) 착수하다[나서다]

 

4. On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

5. He said to his servants, 'Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there. We will worship and then we will come back to you.'

6. Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them went on together,

7. Isaac spoke up and said to his father Abraham, 'Father?' 'Yes, my son?' Abraham replied. 'The fire and wood are here,' Isaac said, 'but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?'

8. Abraham answered, 'God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.' And the two of them went on together.

9. When they reached the place God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.

* bind : 묶다

 

10. Then he reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

* slay : 죽이다

 

11. But the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, 'Abraham! Abraham!' 'Here I am,' he replied.

12. "Do not lay a hand on the boy," he said. "Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son."

* lay a hand on : ~을 손보다, ~에게 상처를 입히다, ~에게 손을 대다(=harm somebody)

* withhold : (~을) 주지 않다 (keep back)

 

13. Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.

* thicket : 덤불

* ram : 숫양

 

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14. So Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. And to this day it is said, 'On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.'

15. The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time

16. and said, 'I swear by myself, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son,

* declare : 선언하다, 분명히 말하다 : - , said someone (누군가 말해다) 처럼 동사와 주어가 바뀌듯, 하나님이 분명히 말하다의 뜻으로, the Lord declares 에서 주어와 동사의 위치가 도치된 것 같다. (←내 추측)

 

17. I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

* seashore : 해안 (가장자리에 있는 땅) / beach : 모래 해변

 

18. and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me.'

19. Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set off together for Beersheba. And Abraham stayed in Beersheba.

* set off for : ~을 향해 출발하다

 

Nahor's Sons

 

20. Some time later Abraham was told, 'Milcah is also a mother; she has borne sons to your brother Nahor:

21. Uz the firstborn, Buz his brother, Kemuel (the father of Aram),

22. Kesed, Hazo, Pildash, Jidlaph and Bethuel.'

23. Bethuel became the father of Rebekah. Milcah bore these eight sons to Abraham's brother Nahor.

24. His concubine, whose name was Reumah, also had sons: Tebah, Gaham, Tahash and Maacah.

*  concubine : (특히 과거 일부 사회에서 존재하던) 첩