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What Does “Make ready” Mean in the Bible?

To prepare something, to have it ready. The “harness” is what is put on a donkey or a horse to ride it.

Where it appears in the Bible

Isaiah 40:3; Genesis 22:3

What the Bible says

Isaiah 40:3

The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.

Genesis 22:3

So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.

Source: RAE, “aparejar” and “aparejo”

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