Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 8:2 
Context8:2 Remember the whole way by which he 1 has brought you these forty years through the desert 2 so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
Deuteronomy 8:13-14
Context8:13 when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything, 8:14 be sure 3 you do not feel self-important and forget the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,
1 tn Heb “the
2 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.
3 tn The words “be sure” are not in the Hebrew text; vv. 12-14 are part of the previous sentence. For stylistic reasons a new sentence was started at the beginning of v. 12 in the translation and the words “be sure” repeated from v. 11 to indicate the connection.
