You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
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You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
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Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
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(29-5) Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 29:6 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Deuteronomy 8:3 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 Yahweh’s mouth.
- Ephesians 5:18 Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,
- Exodus 16:12 “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
- Exodus 16:35 The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
- Numbers 16:14 Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”
- Numbers 20:8 “Take the rod, and assemble the congregation, you, and Aaron your brother, and speak to the rock before their eyes, that it pour out its water. You shall bring water to them out of the rock; so you shall give the congregation and their livestock drink.”
- Nehemiah 9:15 and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
- Psalms 78:24-25 He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky. Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.
- 1 Corinthians 9:25 Every man who strives in the games exercises self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible.
- 1 Corinthians 10:4 and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank of a spiritual rock that followed them, and the rock was Christ.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Made by man’s art, but Manna, which is called…
Made by man’s art, but Manna, which is called the bread of Angels.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Deu 29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have…
Deu 29:6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I [am] the LORD your God.
Ver. 6. Ye have not eaten bread,] viz., Ordinary, {see Deu 2:6} but manna; et benefieium postulat officium.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Not eaten bread, i.e. common bread purchased by your…
Not eaten bread, i.e. common bread purchased by your own money, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angelical bread, Deu 8:3; Psa 78:24,25. You have subsisted without bread, the staff of life.
Neither wine or strong drink, but only water out of the rock.
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The Lord your God; the Lord omnipotent and all-sufficient for your provision, without the help of any creatures, and your God in covenant with you, who hath a true affection to you, and fatherly care of you, even when ordinary means fail.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Ye have not eaten bread,.... Bread made of corn,…
Ye have not eaten bread,.... Bread made of corn, common bread, of their own preparing, made by the labour of their own hands; but manna, the food of angelS, the bread of heaven:
neither have you drank wine, nor strong drink; only water out of the rock, at least chiefly, and for constancy; though it may be, when they were on the borders of other countries, as of the Edomites, they might obtain some wine for their money:
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that ye might know that I am the Lord your God; who was both able and willing to provide food, drink, and raiment for them, and supply them with all good things, and support them without the use of the common necessaries of life; which were abundant proofs of his power and goodness.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Ye have not eaten bread - Common bread purchased…
Ye have not eaten bread - Common bread purchased by your own money, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angelical bread. Neither drank wine - But only water out of the rock. The Lord - Omnipotent and all-sufficient for your provision without the help of any creatures, and your God in covenant with you who hath a true affection to you, and fatherly care of you.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 6. Ye have not eaten bread, c.] That…
Verse 6. Ye have not eaten bread, c.] That is, ye have not been supported in an ordinary providential way I have been continually working miracles for you, that ye might know that I am the Lord. Thus we find that God had furnished them with all the means of this knowledge, and that the means were ineffectual, not because they were not properly calculated to answer God's gracious purpose, but because the people were not workers with God; consequently they received the grace of God in vain. See 2Co 6:1.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Bread, &c., as your ordinary food, (Menochius) though they…
Bread, &c., as your ordinary food, (Menochius) though they might have both bread and wine on some occasions; as when they adored the calf, &c. (St. Augustine, q. 51.) See chap. viii. 4. (Calmet) --- Your God, providing a miraculous food for you. (Menochius)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 6. Not eaten bread, neither… drunk wine — The…
6. Not eaten bread, neither… drunk wine — The meaning is, that in their desert wandering they were not sustained by ordinary or natural means. Their provision was from God.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 6. The v. is parallel to Deu_8:3. The last…
6. The v. is parallel to Deu_8:3. The last clause is not found in D, but occurs (minus the deut. addition your God) in J, Exo_7:17; Exo_8:22; Exo_10:2; in P, Exo_6:7 (+ 5 times); and in Ezek. more than 50 times. Also the lighter form of the first personal pronoun is employed here as in all those passages, but in D it occurs only here and in Deu_12:30, q.v.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (6) Ye have not eaten bread—but manna (Deu_8:3).
(6) Ye have not eaten bread—but manna (Deu_8:3).
Neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink.—A fact stated here only, and evidently coming from the lips of one who “knew their walking through the wilderness.” “They drank of that spiritual rock that followed them; and that Rock was Christ.” God cared for their physical health and strength by the natural food which He gave them, and made their natural food represent the act of feeding upon Him. It is observable also that God seems to have especially blessed the abstinence from wine and strong drink for His sake in Israel. (See Lam_4:7.)
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(7,8) See Deu_3:1-17.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 29:6 but he provided for you: This clause does…
29:6 but he provided for you: This clause does not appear in the Hebrew but is implied by its context.
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