The Binding Of Isaac
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth is a remake of The Binding of Isaac, a difficult adventure game that combined the random level generation of roguelike games (hard games with role-playing characteristics where if you die you start from the beginning) with dungeons inspired by the Zelda saga. Users that got hooked spent hundreds of hours on the game. The official Binding of Isaac multiplayer card game, about sacrifice, betrayal and hoarding. The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls is a multiplayer card game about sacrifice, betrayal and hoarding. Inspired by the hit video game Binding of Isaac, the official card game was launched on Kickstarter in June 2018. Play The Binding of Isaac online for Free on Agame This game is currently blocked due to the new privacy regulation and www.agame.com isn't currently controlling it. In order for you to continue playing this game, you'll need to click 'accept' in the banner below.
The Binding of Isaac, known in Hebrew as the Akedah, is one of the best known — and most troubling — stories in the Bible. In it, God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on Mount Moriah. Abraham agrees, but then is stopped at the last minute when God sends an angel who tells him to sacrifice a ram instead.
The story, in Genesis 22:1-19, is traditionally read on the second day of Rosh Hashanah, and references to it appear throughout the Rosh Hashanah liturgy. Even the shofar (ram’s horn) blown on the holiday is said to be a reminder of the Akedah, and how Isaac was spared.
The story appears in Parashat Vayera, the fourth portion in the annual Torah-reading cycle. Parashat Vayera includes not just the Akedah, but the birth of Isaac, Sarah’s banishment of Hagar and Ishmael, and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham’s action upon learning of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah — arguing with God and urging him to save at least some of the city’s residents — is often contrasted with his passive and obedient response to the order to sacrifice his own son.
The following commentaries on My Jewish Learning address the Binding of Isaac:
Balancing the Needs of Home and Community
Autonomy vs. Heteronomy in the Covenantal Relationship
Seeing the Ram
Sarah and the Akedah
A summary of the “Binding of Isaac” (excerpted from My Jewish Learning’s summary of Parashat Vayera) appears below. To read the full text in Hebrew and English, click here: Genesis 22:1-19.
And it came to pass that God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham.”
“Here I am,” Abraham responded.
God said, “Take, I beg of you, your only son whom you love, Isaac, and get yourself to the land of Moriah and offer him on one of the mountains.”
So Abraham did as he was told, journeying with his wood for the offering and with his son and his servants to the place that God had told him. On the third day, Abraham and Isaac left the servants and took the wood for the offering, some fire and a knife. So they went, both of them, together.
Isaac spoke to his father, Abraham, “My father!”
Abraham said, “Here I am, my son.”
“Here is the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for the offering?” asked Isaac.
”God will see that we have a lamb for the offering, my son.”They came to the place of which God had spoken, and Abraham built the altar and arranged the wood and bound Isaac, his son, and placed him on the altar upon the wood. And Abraham stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slaughter his son. And an angel of God called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham! Abraham!”
“Here I am!” said Abraham. And God said, “Do not stretch your hand toward the lad, nor do the slightest thing to him, for now I know that you are God-fearing and did not withhold from Me.”
Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked and lo! There was a ram caught in the hedge. Abraham took the ram and offered it up as offering in place of his son. Abraham named this place, “God sees.”
An angel of God called to Abraham a second time out of heaven and said, “By Myself have I sworn, says God, because you have done this thing and not withheld from Me your son, your only son, that I will bless you without fail, and without fail multiply your descendants as the stars in heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore, and your seed shall inherit the gate of its enemies. And all the nations of the earth shall bless themselves through your seed, as a consequence of your having hearkened to My voice.”
Then Abraham and Isaac and the servants returned to Beer Sheva.
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The Witness |
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Base HP |
First phase: 2500 Second phase: 2500 |
Stage HP |
0 |
Found In |
Corpse II |
Dropped Items |
End Chest |
The Witness is a new final boss introduced in Antibirth, always found at the end of the Corpse.
When entering the boss room in Corpse II, the battle will not start. Instead, the room contains four golden chests, all of which offer items (similar to The Chest's starting room), and a large pit in its center. Walking into the pit will cause the player character to fall through and start the final battle.
Upon beating The Witness, a knife completion mark will be added in an extra post-it note.
Behavior[edit | edit source]
The Witness has two phases. In its first phase, it is attached to the upper wall and has several attacks:
- Fires 3 lines of red tears that follow Isaac which burst upon hitting a wall.
- Shoots 2 parallel lasers from its right eye after it spawns rocks in random places for Isaac to stay behind
- Smashes one of its fists and spawns rock waves that travel outwards.
- This movement is only used to erase rocks formed by the sweeping laser attack.
- Smashes one of its fists and spawns a ring of 10 tears that split.
- Spawns multiple Corpse Eaters from its right hand.
- Spits a cluster of blood shots with 3 larger tears that stick in the ground, leaving behind red creep for a few seconds and periodically shoot 6 shots.
- These tears can be destroyed and will continue to fire shots until they are destroyed.
- Throws a massive knife leaving a trail of bullets. Bullets explode from the location the knife impacts the wall, and the trail of bullets splits horizontally in both directions.
- Spits a ball of blood that will bounce off of the wall and back to it. It will then smack the ball back at Isaac. The ball will bounce between The Witness and the far wall several times, increasing its speed and size each time it bounces.
- Smashes its fists to spawn moving rows of tears along with rows of tears that travel in lightning patterns.
Once the first phase's health is depleted, it will detach from the wall and begin roaming around the room with new attacks:
- Spawns tears at an edge of the room, which all then create lines of tears across the room after a short delay.
- Charges at Isaac, leaving behind tears that explode sideways upon hitting a wall or impassable terrain, identical to The Parasite item.
- Fires a large tear that then transforms into a rotating brimstone beam. It will always make space for Isaac to avoid when it stops in the wall or corner.
- During this attack, The Witness will simultaneously fire lines of bullets in 4 directions, rotating counterclockwise until the beam vanishes.
- Spins around in place, simultaneously firing 5 rotating rows of bullets and rings of 20 bullets. Each ring alternates between rotating clockwise and counterclockwise.
- Fires a cluster of bullets at Isaac that slightly homes and splits into 6 smaller versions upon contact with a wall. The smaller versions home in as well and burst into a random cluster of bullets upon hitting a wall or after a certain amount of time.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- The Witness is immune to status effects.
Unlockables[edit | edit source]
- Jacob & Esau - Defeat The Witness for the first time.
- Seeing Double - Defeat The Witness for the first time.
- Isaac's Awakening - Defeat The Witness for the first time.
- Meat Cleaver - Defeat The Witness as Isaac.
- Yuck Heart - Defeat The Witness as Magdalene.
- Red Key - Defeat The Witness as Cain.
- Akeldama - Defeat The Witness as Judas.
- Eternal D6 - Defeat The Witness as ???.
- Bird Cage - Defeat The Witness as Eve.
- Donkey Jawbone - Defeat The Witness as Samson.
- Devil's Crown - Defeat The Witness as Azazel.
- Tinytoma - Defeat The Witness as Lazarus.
- 'M - Defeat The Witness as Eden.
- Lost Soul - Defeat The Witness as The Lost.
- Revelation (currently bugged, unlocks nothing) - Defeat The Witness as Bethany.
- Magic Skin - Defeat The Witness as Jacob & Esau.
- Mega Mush - Defeat The Witness as every character on hard mode.
Gallery[edit | edit source]
First phase
Second phase
In-game Sprite
Concept Art of the 3 Phases of the Witness, the 2nd Which Was Scrapped. It's said that it's due to the rush to release the Binding of Isaac: Antibirth early before the Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth† DLC release date that only the 1st and 3rd phases were added in the game.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The track played in The Witness battle is titled Memento Mori. Memento Mori means 'remember death' in Latin.
- The name may be a reference to a murder victim, as you killed your own mother's heart much earlier to unlock the boss, and it could have possibly been watching.
- In the New Testament Book of Revelation, two figures referred to as 'the witnesses' were sent to preach on Earth before the 'end of days'.
- The Witness originated as NotYourSagittarius' mockups[1][2] of Ur-Gurdy in January 2015, a rumoured boss originating from a vandalism on the wiki's Bosses page, later claimed by a Reddit user.[3][4] It is the final form of all Gurdies. Its design is similar to a gigantic form of Gurdy that would act as a boss in Sheol.
- The Boss's Phase 2 was orignally supposed to be Phase 3. However, Phase 2 got scrapped.
Bugs[edit | edit source]
The Binding Of Isaac Unblocked
Bosses | |
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Rebirth Chapters | Baby Plum • Reap Creep • The Pile |
Downpour | Beelzeblub • The Rainmaker • Wormwood |
Mines | Great Gideon • Hornfel • Tuff Twins |
Mausoleum | Mausoleum Mom • The Heretic • The Siren • The Visage |
Corpse | Chimera • Rotgut • The Scourge • The Witness |
The Binding Of Isaac Repentance
Antibirth |
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- ↑https://www.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/comments/2thasc/a_boss_mockup_the_urgurdy/
- ↑https://www.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/comments/2tllnf/2x2_boss_room_mockup_the_urgurdy/
- ↑https://www.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/comments/2vlna2/urgurdy_was_originally_my_idea/
- ↑https://www.reddit.com/r/bindingofisaac/comments/4akfmh/alt_floor_mockup_the_cesspool/d13brtc/