For our servitude will not be directed towards our benefit, but the Lord our God will turn it to our dishonor.
Now therefore, O brethren, let us show an example to our brethren, because their hearts depend on us, and the sanctuary and the house and the altar rest on us.
Moreover, let us give thanks to the Lord our God, who tests us, even as he did our fathers. Remember the things he did to Abraham, and how he tested Isaac, and what happened to Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria, when he kept the sheep of Laban his mother's brother.