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Deuteronomy 8:3 — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with…
“And 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.”
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The verses around Deuteronomy 8:3.
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.
Verse explanation
The statement that man does not live by bread alone grows out of the concrete experience of the manna: a food no one had known before, given day by day, to teach that the people’s survival depended on the word of God, not on guaranteed food alone. It is the same line Jesus later quotes in the wilderness, in Matthew 4.
From the Deuteronomy 8 study in Bible in Stories.
Deuteronomy 8:3 in other versions
The same verse in the 4 Bible versions we have on the site.
- KJV · King James
And 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.
Read the chapter in this version → - ARC · Almeida 1911Português
E te humilhou, e te deixou ter fome, e te sustentou com o manná, que tu não conheceste, nem teus paes o conheceram: para te dar a entender que o homem não viverá só de pão, mas que de tudo o que sae da bocca do Senhor viverá o homem.
Read the chapter in this version → - BLIVRE · Bíblia LivrePortuguês
E te afligiu, e te fez ter fome, e te sustentou com maná, comida que não conhecias tu, nem teus pais a conheciam; para fazer-te saber que o homem não viverá de só pão, mas de tudo o que sai da boca do SENHOR viverá o homem.
Read the chapter in this version → - VBL · Versión Biblia LibreEspañol
Te humilló y, cuando tuviste hambre, te dio a comer maná, que nadie, ni siquiera tú y tus antepasados, habían tenido antes. Esto fue para dejarte claro que los seres humanos no viven sólo de comer pan, sino de toda palabra que sale de la boca del Señor.
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