Isn't it amazing the parallels between God's commanding Abraham to offer Isaac as a propitiatory sacrifice and God's offering of His own Son.
...your
only son Isaac...
...whom you love...
I don't know if you would want to say that Abraham thought that Isaac would be offered for his particular sins. I would reckon the sacrificial idea to a burnt offering for Sin rather than sins in the way the Passover lamb was. I also don't think this is reading the Levitical Law back into Abraham.
After all, God slayed an animal to make skins for Adam and Eve.
Abel offered sacrifices.
Noah offered sacrifices.
Job offered sacrifices.
The pattern that only sacrifice can propitiate the wrath of God is well established throughout the Scriptures.
Gen 22:7-8
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7. And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
8. And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering
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