Gideon replied,“ If you are truly going to help me, show me a sign to prove that it is really the Lord speaking to me.

基甸说：“我若在你眼前蒙恩，求你给我一个证据，使我知道与我说话的就是主。

基甸对他说：“我若在你眼前蒙恩，求你给我一个证据，证明是你在跟我说话。

基甸对他说：“我若在你眼前蒙恩，求你给我一个证据，证明是你在跟我说话。

基甸说：“如果我在你面前蒙恩，求你给我一个凭据，使我知道与我说话的真是你耶和华。

基甸又对他说：“如果我在你眼前蒙恩，求你给我一个凭据，证实是你与我说话。

基甸說：「我若在你眼前蒙恩，求你給我一個證據，使我知道與我說話的就是主。

基甸對他說：「我若在你眼前蒙恩，求你給我一個證據，證明是你在跟我說話。

基甸對他說：「我若在你眼前蒙恩，求你給我一個證據，證明是你在跟我說話。

基甸說：「如果我在你面前蒙恩，求你給我一個憑據，使我知道與我說話的真是你耶和華。

基甸又對他說：“如果我在你眼前蒙恩，求你給我一個憑據，證實是你與我說話。

基甸對他說：『我若在你面前蒙恩，求你為我顯個神迹，證實是你同我說話。

曰、我若蒙恩於爾前、求示我以徵、俾知與我言者為爾也、

曰如我蒙恩於爾前、請示以徵、則知爾誠諭我者也。

曰、如我蒙恩於主前、求主示我以證、使我知與我言者誠主也、或作使我知主真與我言

Gideon replied,“ If now I have found favor in your eyes, give me a sign that it is really you talking to me.

Gideon replied,“ If you are pleased with me, give me a special sign. Then I’ll know that it’s really you talking to me.

And he said to him,“ If now I have found favor in your eyes, then show me a sign that it is you who speak with me.

Then he said to him,“ If I have found favor with you, give me a sign that you are speaking with me.

So Gideon said to Him,“ If now I have found favor in Your sight, then perform for me a sign that it is You speaking with me.

Then he said to Him,“ If now I have found favor in Your sight, then show me a sign that it is You who talk with me.

And he said unto him, If now I have found favor in thy sight, then show me a sign that it is thou that talkest with me.

Then he said to Him,“ If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that You are speaking with me.

And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou talkest with me.

Gideon said to him,“ If you really are pleased with me, then give me a sign as proof that it is really you speaking with me.

He said to him,“ If now I have found favor in your sight, then show me a sign that it is you who talk with me.

Send me a sign of your favor. Then those who hate me will be put to shame, for you, O Lord, help and comfort me.

If it is true that you look favorably on me, let me know your ways so I may understand you more fully and continue to enjoy your favor. And remember that this nation is your very own people.”

“ Ask the Lord your God for a sign of confirmation, Ahaz. Make it as difficult as you want— as high as heaven or as deep as the place of the dead.”

How will anyone know that you look favorably on me— on me and on your people— if you don’t go with us? For your presence among us sets your people and me apart from all other people on the earth.”

Then Gideon said to God,“ If you are truly going to use me to rescue Israel as you promised,prove it to me in this way. I will put a wool fleece on the threshing floor tonight. If the fleece is wet with dew in the morning but the ground is dry, then I will know that you are going to help me rescue Israel as you promised.”And that is just what happened. When Gideon got up early the next morning, he squeezed the fleece and wrung out a whole bowlful of water.Then Gideon said to God,“ Please don’t be angry with me, but let me make one more request. Let me use the fleece for one more test. This time let the fleece remain dry while the ground around it is wet with dew.”So that night God did as Gideon asked. The fleece was dry in the morning, but the ground was covered with dew.

But Abram replied,“ O Sovereign Lord, how can I be sure that I will actually possess it?”The Lord told him,“ Bring me a three year old heifer, a three year old female goat, a three year old ram, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”So Abram presented all these to him and killed them. Then he cut each animal down the middle and laid the halves side by side; he did not, however, cut the birds in half.Some vultures swooped down to eat the carcasses, but Abram chased them away.As the sun was going down, Abram fell into a deep sleep, and a terrifying darkness came down over him.Then the Lord said to Abram,“ You can be sure that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign land, where they will be oppressed as slaves for 400 years.But I will punish the nation that enslaves them, and in the end they will come away with great wealth.( As for you, you will die in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.)After four generations your descendants will return here to this land, for the sins of the Amorites do not yet warrant their destruction.”After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.

Meanwhile, Hezekiah had said to Isaiah,“ What sign will the Lord give to prove that he will heal me and that I will go to the Temple of the Lord three days from now?”Isaiah replied,“ This is the sign from the Lord to prove that he will do as he promised. Would you like the shadow on the sundial to go forward ten steps or backward ten steps?”“ The shadow always moves forward,” Hezekiah replied,“ so that would be easy. Make it go ten steps backward instead.”So Isaiah the prophet asked the Lord to do this, and he caused the shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial of Ahaz!

But Moses protested again,“ What if they won’t believe me or listen to me? What if they say,‘ The Lord never appeared to you’?”Then the Lord asked him,“ What is that in your hand?”“ A shepherd’s staff,” Moses replied.“ Throw it down on the ground,” the Lord told him. So Moses threw down the staff, and it turned into a snake! Moses jumped back.Then the Lord told him,“ Reach out and grab its tail.” So Moses reached out and grabbed it, and it turned back into a shepherd’s staff in his hand.“ Perform this sign,” the Lord told him.“ Then they will believe that the Lord, the God of their ancestors— the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob— really has appeared to you.”Then the Lord said to Moses,“ Now put your hand inside your cloak.” So Moses put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out again, his hand was white as snow with a severe skin disease.“ Now put your hand back into your cloak,” the Lord said. So Moses put his hand back in, and when he took it out again, it was as healthy as the rest of his body.The Lord said to Moses,“ If they do not believe you and are not convinced by the first miraculous sign, they will be convinced by the second sign.And if they don’t believe you or listen to you even after these two signs, then take some water from the Nile River and pour it out on the dry ground. When you do, the water from the Nile will turn to blood on the ground.”

“‘ And this is the sign from the Lord to prove that he will do as he promised:I will cause the sun’s shadow to move ten steps backward on the sundial of Ahaz!’” So the shadow on the sundial moved backward ten steps.