Genesis 22:13
“And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.”
KJV
Read in Genesis 22Meaning
The ram becomes the actual burnt offering, replacing Isaac and confirming that the son is not killed in the story's resolution.
Read carefully
Later theological traditions may read substitution typologically, but the immediate narrative point is that Isaac is spared and an animal is provided.
Reflection
Provision here is tangible and life-preserving: the crisis ends through a substitute offering rather than through the death of the child.