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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.

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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).

So He humbled you, (A)allowed you to hunger, and (B)fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall (C)not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.

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