Deuteronomy 8:1-3

Remember the Lord Your God

¹ "The whole commandment that I command you today _v you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. ² And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you _w these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, _x testing you _y to know what was in your heart, _z whether you would keep his commandments or not. ³ And he humbled you and _a let you hunger and _b fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that _c man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word ₁ that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

1. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 4:1
   And now, O Israel, listen to the statutes and the rules that I am teaching you, and do them, that you may live, and go in and take possession of the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
   Deuteronomy 5:32 - 33
   You shall be careful therefore to do as the Lord your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
   Deuteronomy 6:1 - 3
   Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the Lord your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it.
   
2. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 1:3
   In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them.
   Deuteronomy 2:7
   For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing."
   Deuteronomy 29:5
   I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.
   Amos 2:10
   Also it was I who brought you up out of the land of Egypt and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
   
3. Cross References
   Deuteronomy 8:16
   Who fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers did not know, that he might humble you and test you, to do you good in the end.
   Exodus 15:25
   And he cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a log, and he threw it into the water, and the water became sweet. There the Lord made for them a statute and a rule, and there he tested them.
   
4. Cross References
   2 Chronicles 32:31
   And so in the matter of the envoys of the princes of Babylon, who had been sent to him to inquire about the sign that had been done in the land, God left him to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.
   
5. Cross References
   Exodus 16:4
   Then the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, I am about to rain bread from heaven for you, and the people shall go out and gather a day's portion every day, that I may test them, whether they will walk in my law or not.
   Judges 3:4
   They were for the testing of Israel, to know whether Israel would obey the commandments of the Lord, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
   
6. Cross References
   Exodus 16:2 - 3
   And the whole congregation of the people of Israel grumbled against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
   
7. Cross References
   Exodus 16:12
   "I have heard the grumbling of the people of Israel. Say to them, 'At twilight you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God.'"
   Exodus 16:14 - 15
   And when the dew had gone up, there was on the face of the wilderness a fine, flake-like thing, fine as frost on the ground.
   Exodus 16:35
   The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
   Numbers 11:6 - 9
   But now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.
   Numbers 21:5
   And the people spoke against God and against Moses, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and we loathe this worthless food.
   
8. Cross References
   Matthew 4:4
   But he answered, "It is written, "'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.'
   Luke 4:4
   And Jesus answered him, "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone.'
   John 6:49 - 51
   Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.