Satan Accuses Abraham of Offering No Sacrifice at Isaac's Feast

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 96:2

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Another interpretation: "And it came to pass after these things." After what? Rabbi Yochanan said in the name of Rabbi Yose ben Zimra: after the words of Satan, as it is written, "And the child grew and was weaned" (Genesis 21:8). Satan said before the Holy One, blessed be He: Master of the universe, this old man whom You favored with the fruit of the womb at a hundred years old, of all the feasting that he made, did he not have a single turtledove or a single young pigeon to offer up before You? He said to him: Did he do anything except for the sake of his son? If I should say to him, Slaughter your son before Me, he would slaughter him. Immediately, "God tested Abraham." [Another version:] after the words of Ishmael, and so forth, as above.

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