<Tab/>God demanded of Adam that he not eat from the tree of knowledge; Adam could eat the fruit of any other tree in the Garden of Eden, but not that of the tree of knowledge: "And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to dress and to keep it. And the lord God commanded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden …showed first 75 words of 1588 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1588 total…and stops him. He tells him that it was a test, and thus Abraham's motives, his justification for his actins, are validated. He has proved his obedience to God, proved his faith. <Tab/>And he said, lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me. (Gen. 22:12)