The Sacrifice of Isaac

1 After these things ^vGod ^wtested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” And he said, ^x“Here I am.”

4 ^yThen the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I am about to rain ^zbread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather ^aa day’s portion every day, that I may ^btest them, whether they will walk in my law or not.

2 And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you ^pthese forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, ^qtesting you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

22 in order to ^htest Israel by them, whether they will take care to walk in the way of the Lord as their fathers did, or not.”

31 And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to ^rtest him and to know all that was in his heart.