Genesis 22:13
13 Abraham looked up ▼▼tn Heb “lifted his eyes.”
and saw ▼▼tn Heb “and saw, and look.” The particle הִנֵּה (hinneh, “look”) draws attention to what Abraham saw and invites the audience to view the scene through his eyes.
behind him ▼▼tc The translation follows the reading of the MT; a number of Hebrew mss, the LXX, Syriac, and Smr read “one” (אֶחָד, ʾekhad) instead of “behind him” (אַחַר, ʾakhar).
a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he ▼▼tn Heb “Abraham”; the proper name has been replaced by the pronoun (“he”) in the translation for stylistic reasons.
went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
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