Deuteronomy 8:16

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16 Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;


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By Alexander Payne

Verse 16. Who sustained you in these states of temptation with good from Himself, which was foreign to your hereditary nature, that He might reduce the love of evil within you, and that the evil and good might be separated, and that He might gift you with heavenly affections at the end of your time of probation;