The Daily Audio Bible

¹⁷ By faith, Abraham - when he was tried - offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises offered his only begotten son

¹⁸ (to whom it was said, “In Isaac shall your seed be called.”)

¹⁹ For he considered that God was able to raise him up - even from the dead - from where He received him also, figuratively.

²⁰ By faith, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come.

²¹ By faith, Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph worshipping at the end of his staff.

²² By faith, Joseph, when he died, mentioned the departing of the children of Israel and gave commandment about his bones.

²³ By faith, Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents because they saw he was a beautiful child. Nor did they fear the king’s commandment.

²⁴ By faith, Moses, when he had come to age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter

²⁵ and chose to suffer adversity with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season.

²⁶ He esteemed the rebuke of Christ to be greater riches than the treasures of Egypt. For he looked toward the reward.

²⁷ By faith, he left Egypt and did not fear the fierceness of the king. For he endured, as he who saw Him Who is invisible.

²⁸ Through faith, he ordained the Passover and the effusion of blood, so that he who destroyed the first born would not touch them.

²⁹ By faith, they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land (in which the Egyptians, when they had tried to do so, were swallowed up).

³⁰ By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down after they were surrounded for seven days.

³¹ By faith, the prostitute Rahab, when she had received the spies peaceably, did not perish with those who disobeyed.