Akedah
‘Binding of Isaac’, the account in
the book of Genesis
(22: 1–19) of
Abraham
, at the command of God, taking his son,
Isaac
, to be offered as a sacrifice on Mount Moriah. Abraham
binds
his son (hence ‘the Binding of Isaac’) to the altar and is ready to perform the dreadful deed when an angel appears to tell him to stay his hand and to promise him that his seed will increase. There is no reference to this episode anywhere else in the Bible. Nor does it feature very prominently in ...