Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.Īngel of the Lord: (calling to Abraham from heaven) Abraham, Abraham!Īngel of the Lord: Do not stretch out your hand against the lad, and do nothing to him for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me. Then they came to the place of which God had told him and Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood, and bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood. Narrator: So the two of them walked on together. Isaac: Behold, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?Ībraham: God will provide for Himself the lamb for the burnt offering, my son. Narrator: Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. On the third day Abraham raised his eyes and saw the place from a distance.Ībraham: (to his young men) Stay here with the donkey, and I and the lad will go over there and we will worship and return to you. Narrator: So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and Isaac his son and he split wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him.

God: Take now your son, your only son, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I will tell you. Wood (can use rolled up construction paper) This skit can be performed as simply as having your students read the script in class, or as extravagant as having costumes and scenery. It is written directly from the Bible, only putting in a few directorial cues, which are written in parenthesis.

This is a skit portraying the story of Abraham offering Isaac to God as written in Genesis 22.

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