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Targum Neofiti Gen (The italics is translated from Hebrew to Aramaic and the regular font is material added by the targumist.)[1] And Abraham worshipped and prayed in the name of the Memra (Word) of the Lord and said: “I beseech by the mercy that is before you O Lord:--everything is manifest and known before you—that there was no division in my heart the first time that you said to me to offer my son Isaac, to make him dust and ashes before you; but I immediately arose early in the morning and diligently put your words unto practice with gladness and fulfilled your decree. And now, when his sons are in .the hour of distress you shall remember the binding of their father Isaac, and listen to the voice of their supplication, and answer them and deliver them from all distress, so that the generations to arise after him may say: ‘On the mountain of the sanctuary of the Lord Abraham sacrificed his son Isaac, and on this mountain the glory of the Shekinah of the Lord was revealed to him.’”
[1] From The Aramaic Bible, vol. 1A, Targum Neofiti 1: Genesis (Collegeville,
Minn.: Liturgical Press, 1992), 118-19. This is one of the old additions (it is
synoptically attested in Tgs Ps-J, Neofiti, and the Fragment Tgs, Paris and
Vaticanus).
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