Deuteronomy 8:2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
2 Remember how for these forty years the Lord, your God, has directed all your journeying in the wilderness,(A) so as to test you by affliction, to know what was in your heart: to keep his commandments, or not.
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Deuteronomy 8:16
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
16 and fed you in the wilderness with manna, a food unknown to your ancestors, that he might afflict you and test you, but also make you prosperous in the end.
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