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He humbled you by letting you hunger, then by feeding you with manna, with which neither you nor your ancestors were acquainted, in order to make you understand that one does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.[a] The clothes on your back did not wear out and your feet did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a parent disciplines a child so the Lord your God disciplines you.

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  1. Deuteronomy 8:3 Or by anything that the Lord decrees

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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