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Abraham & Isaac

Abraham & Isaac, Furgiven
Watch the film · 7:00 · coming to YouTube
Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovestGenesis 22:2

The story

D06 Isaac Grown

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?"

D16 Leaves Servants

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.

D28 Isaac Safe Embrace

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.

D36 Mount of the Lord

Chapters below.

D48 Provided the Lamb

Study companion, every verse linked to the King James Bible: https://fur-given.com/episodes/07_abraham_isaac/

Walk through the story

Every beat of the film, in order, with the frame that carries it.

D19 Isaac Asks Lamb
0:00

Where is the lamb?

0:29

Mira and Tov

D03 Isaac Glances
0:42

Isaac, the son of the promise

D10 Take Thy Son
1:03

Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac

D04 Abraham Steady
1:12

Mira: You do not ask that

D01 Two Climb Dawn
1:32

Abraham rises at dawn

D02 Wood on Isaacs Back
2:00

We will come back together

D17 Lays Wood on Isaac
2:22

Isaac carries the wood uphill

D40 the Son Is Lamb
2:34

Where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

D11 a Mountain Shown
3:02

The altar on the mountain

D27 Hand Stayed
3:22

Lay not thine hand upon the lad

D31 Ram in Thicket
4:04

A ram caught in the thicket

D38 Another Son Wood
4:56

Another Son carries the wood

D20 God Will Provide
5:23

Behold the Lamb of God

D47 All Nations
5:49

All nations blessed through his seed

D05 Summit Ahead
6:24

The hardest test, and kindest answer

Every word from Scripture

Quoted line for line from the King James Version.

Genesis 22:2God speaks

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

Genesis 22:12God speaks

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

Threads to watch for

Small details that pay off later. The gold marks are seeds the ending grows from.

  1. Genesis 22:2

    Take thy son, thine ONLY son Isaac whom thou lovest

  2. Genesis 22:4

    Three days' journey to the mountain (the long obedience)

  3. Genesis 22:5

    'I and the lad will... come again to you', faith that BOTH return

    Pays off → Tov's 'he said WE'

  4. Genesis 22:6

    Isaac carries the wood up the mountain

    Pays off → Christ carries the cross up His hill

  5. Genesis 22:7

    Isaac: where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

  6. Genesis 22:8

    God will provide himself a lamb (the spine line)

  7. Genesis 22:12

    Lay not thine hand... now I know thou fearest God (God confirming, not learning)

  8. Genesis 22:13

    A ram caught in a thicket, offered INSTEAD of his son

    Pays off → The substitute -> the Lamb

  9. Genesis 22:14

    Abraham names the place Jehovah-jireh, the LORD will provide

  10. Genesis 22:17-18

    Seed as stars + sand; all nations blessed

  11. John 1:29

    Behold the Lamb of God (the grace landing the ram pointed to)

    Pays off → Moriah substitution fulfilled at the cross

Faithful to the text

Checked against the KJV

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.

Talk about it

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.

The Shorts

Short, vertical cuts, each built around one verse.

Mira: Who Took Isaac's Place? The Ram in the Thicket
Short · 1:05

Mira: Who Took Isaac's Place? The Ram in the Thicket

Isaac was on the altar, then God provided a substitute sacrifice in his place.

  • Genesis 22:13: a ram caught in a thicket by his horns
  • John 1:29: Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world
Watch Short · coming to YouTube
Where Is the Lamb? Abraham and Isaac
Short · 1:26

Where Is the Lamb? Abraham and Isaac

Isaac carried the wood up the mountain, then asked the question everything turns on: where is the lamb?

  • Genesis 22:7: Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
  • Genesis 22:8: My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering
  • John 1:29: Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world
Watch Short · coming to YouTube
Would You Give Everything? Abraham and Isaac
Short · 1:19

Would You Give Everything? Abraham and Isaac

Mira still can't make peace with this: God asked Abraham for the son he waited a hundred years for, and Abraham climbed anyway.

Watch Short · coming to YouTube