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Deuteronomy 8:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 8:1-3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 8
The Lord’s Kindness.1 [a]Be diligent in observing all of the commandments that I am giving you today, so that you might live and multiply, and so that you might enter and take possession of the land that the Lord promised to your fathers. 2 Remember how the Lord, your God, guided your path through the wilderness for these forty years, abasing you and testing you so that he might know what was in your heart, whether or not you would observe his commandments. 3 He brought you low, allowing you to suffer from hunger. He then fed you with manna, something with which your fathers were not familiar, so that you might come to know that man does not live by bread alone,[b] but man lives by every word that comes forth from the mouth of the Lord.
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- Deuteronomy 8:1 In order to bring out other more profound and less obvious aspects of the covenant, Deuteronomy applies a method in use throughout the Bible. It reflects on the events of the sacred history which the people have experienced.
- Deuteronomy 8:3 Man does not live by bread alone: the assurance of God’s care for his people goes beyond their physical needs. Jesus used these words to confront Satan when he was being tempted (Mt 4:4), with certain belief in God’s power to sustain those who love him.
