Deuteronomy 8:3
Verse 3 of 20. The 8th of 34 chapters in Deuteronomy, in The Law.
1All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.
2And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.
4Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
5Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.
6Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
7For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
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Deuteronomy 8:3 in the World English Bible
He humbled you, allowed you to be hungry, and fed you with manna, which you didn’t know, neither did your fathers know, that he might teach you that man does not live by bread only, but man lives by every word that proceeds out of the LORD’s mouth.Read Deuteronomy 8:3 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 8:3
God himself took particular care of their food, raiment, and health; and what would they have more? [1.] They had manna for food (v. 3): God suffered them to hunger, and the fed them with manna, that the extremity of their want might make the supply the more acceptable, and God's goodness to them therein the more remarkable. God often brings his people low, that he may have the honour of helping them.
Read Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 8:1–9: A Charge to Israel; Israel's Retrospect. (b. c. 1451.)
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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.