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He therefore let you be afflicted with hunger, and then fed you with manna,(A) a food unknown to you and your ancestors, so you might know that it is not by bread alone[a] that people live, but by all that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord. The clothing did not fall from you in tatters, nor did your feet swell these forty years.(B) So you must know in your heart that, even as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord, your God, disciplines you.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:3 Not by bread alone: Deuteronomic theology puts the good things promised faithful Israel into the context of the Lord’s gratuitous love. As in 6:10–12, the goods of life must be seen as gift. Israel is to seek what really matters; all else will be added (cf. Mt 6:33).

He humbled(A) you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna,(B) which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach(C) you that man does not live on bread(D) alone but on every word that comes from the mouth(E) of the Lord.(F) Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.(G) Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.(H)

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