times as the place where Abraham made his offering (though in Muslim tradition, it is Ishmael whom Abraham agrees to offer, and it happens in Mecca). But why did God need to test Abraham? The story again makes us ask whether God does not know how a person like Abraham would react to a command of this kind. Sometimes tests happen for the benefit of the person being tested. If the man I referred to in relation to Genesis 20:1–13 experiences sexual temptation again and resists it, he will have learned