Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovestGenesis 22:2
Mira can't get past the question Isaac asked on the mountain.
"Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?"
God told Abraham to take his only son Isaac, the boy he had waited a lifetime for, and offer him on a mountain. This is the Binding of Isaac from Genesis 22: the three-day walk, Abraham's faith that both would return, Isaac carrying the wood, and the ram caught in a thicket by his horns.
The promise widens one last time: as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore, in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed.
Chapters below.
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Every beat of the film, in order, with the frame that carries it.
Where is the lamb?
Mira and Tov
Isaac, the son of the promise
Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac
Mira: You do not ask that
Abraham rises at dawn
We will come back together
Isaac carries the wood uphill
Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
The altar on the mountain
Lay not thine hand upon the lad
A ram caught in the thicket
Another Son carries the wood
Behold the Lamb of God
All nations blessed through his seed
The hardest test, and kindest answer
Quoted line for line from the King James Version.
Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest
I and the lad will go yonder and worship, and come again to you
Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering
Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me
a ram caught in a thicket by his horns
In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen
as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore
in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed
Behold the Lamb of God
which taketh away the sin of the world
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Small details that pay off later. The gold marks are seeds the ending grows from.
Take thy son, thine ONLY son Isaac whom thou lovest
Three days' journey to the mountain (the long obedience)
'I and the lad will... come again to you', faith that BOTH return
Pays off → Tov's 'he said WE'
Isaac carries the wood up the mountain
Pays off → Christ carries the cross up His hill
Isaac: where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
God will provide himself a lamb (the spine line)
Lay not thine hand... now I know thou fearest God (God confirming, not learning)
A ram caught in a thicket, offered INSTEAD of his son
Pays off → The substitute -> the Lamb
Abraham names the place Jehovah-jireh, the LORD will provide
Seed as stars + sand; all nations blessed
Behold the Lamb of God (the grace landing the ram pointed to)
Pays off → Moriah substitution fulfilled at the cross
All 11 quoted spans were verified word for word against the King James Version, then read for fairness and reverence before a single frame was made. Mira & Tov are companions in a dramatized retelling, not people from the Bible.
Mira came in angry at the command: "You do not ask that." What part of Genesis 22 is hardest for you to sit with: the test itself, or why God asked at all? Subscribe if you want more Bible stories told straight, with room for honest doubt.
Short, vertical cuts, each built around one verse.
Isaac was on the altar, then God provided a substitute sacrifice in his place.
Isaac carried the wood up the mountain, then asked the question everything turns on: where is the lamb?
Mira still can't make peace with this: God asked Abraham for the son he waited a hundred years for, and Abraham climbed anyway.
