Editing Isaac (section)

===Binding===
[[File:Beit alfa02.jpg|thumb|right|The ''Akedah'' (Binding), mosaic on the floor of [[Beit Alfa Synagogue]]]]
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At some point in Isaac's youth, his father Abraham took him to Mount [[Moriah]]. At God's command as the last of ten trials to test his faith, Abraham was to build a sacrificial altar and sacrifice his son Isaac upon it. After he had bound his son to the altar and drawn his knife to kill him, at the last moment an [[angel]] of God prevented Abraham from proceeding. Instead, he was directed to sacrifice a nearby ram that was stuck in thickets.<ref>{{bibleverse|Genesis|22:13|HE}}</ref>