The Sacrifice of Isaac

22 After these things God tested Abraham^(A) and said to him, “Abraham!”

“Here I am,” he answered.

² “Take your son,” He said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love,^(B) go to the land of Moriah,^(C) and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about.”

³⁰ “Every tenth of the land’s produce, grain from the soil or fruit from the trees, belongs to the Lord;^(A) it is holy to the Lord.

⁶ “Because I, Yahweh, have not changed,^(A) you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.^(B)

Robbing God

⁷ “Since the days of your fathers, you have turned from My statutes; you have not kept them.^(C) Return to Me,^(D) and I will return to you,”^(E) says the Lord of Hosts.

But you ask: “How can we return?”

⁸ “Will a man rob^(F) God? Yet you are robbing Me!”

You ask: “How do we rob You?”

“By not making the payments of the tenth and the contributions.^{(G) 9} You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me. ¹⁰ Bring the full tenth into the storehouse^(H) so that there may be food in My house.^(I) Test Me in this way,”^(J) says the Lord of Hosts. “See if I will not open the floodgates of heaven^(K) and pour out a blessing for you without measure.^(L)

¹⁶ “For God loved^(A) the world in this way:^[a] He gave His One and Only^(B) Son,^(C) so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.^(D)