Abraham Tested

22 Some time later God tested^(A) Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,”^(B) he replied.

² Then God said, “Take your son^(A), your only son, whom you love—Isaac—and go to the region of Moriah.^(B) Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering^(C) on a mountain I will show you.^(D)”

¹⁷ By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice.^(A) He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son,

²³ When they came to Marah, they could not drink its water because it was bitter. (That is why the place is called Marah.^[a](A)) ²⁴ So the people grumbled^(B) against Moses, saying, “What are we to drink?”^(C)

²⁵ Then Moses cried out^(D) to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a piece of wood. He threw^(E) it into the water, and the water became fit to drink.

There the Lord issued a ruling and instruction for them and put them to the test.^(F)

⁷ These have come so that the proven genuineness^(A) of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire^(B)—may result in praise, glory and honor^(C) when Jesus Christ is revealed.^(D)