¹⁰ As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and there were the Egyptians coming after them! The Israelites were terrified and cried out^(A) to the Lord for help.

² Remember that the Lord your God led you on the entire journey these forty years in the wilderness, so that he might humble you and test you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.

¹⁶ He fed you in the wilderness with manna,^(A) which your ancestors had not known, in order to humble and test you, so that in the end he might cause you to prosper.

²² I did this to test Israel and to see whether or not they would keep the Lord’s way^(A) by walking in it, as their ancestors had.”^(B)

The Lord Tests Israel

3 These are the nations the Lord left in order to test all those in Israel who had experienced none of the wars in Canaan.^(A)

⁴ The Lord left them to test Israel, to determine if they would keep the Lord’s commands he had given their ancestors through Moses.^(A)

²¹ Elisha went out to the spring, threw salt in it,^(A) and said, “This is what the Lord says: ‘I have healed this water. No longer will death or unfruitfulness result from it.’”