Miniature Excised from a Compendium in historiae genealogia Christi by Peter Poitiers: The Sacrifice of Isaac

Miniature Excised from a Compendium in historiae genealogia Christi by Peter Poitiers: The Sacrifice of Isaac

1200–1250 · William de Brailes (English, active c. 1230)

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And Abraham stretched foorth his hand, and tooke the knife to slay his sonne.
GENESIS 22:10 · KJV 1611 · READ THE CHAPTER

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