Deuteronomy 8:2
Hebrew Bible
1 You must keep carefully all these commandments I am giving you today so that you may live, increase in number, and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. 2 Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these 40 years through the wilderness so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not. 3 So he humbled you by making you hungry and then feeding you with unfamiliar manna. He did this to teach you that humankind cannot live by bread alone, but also by everything that comes from the Lord’s mouth. 4 Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these 40 years.
Date: 6th Century B.C.E. (Final composition) (based on scholarly estimates)
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LXX Deuteronomy 8:2
Septuagint
1 “‘All the commands that I commanded you today you shall be mindful to do, in order that you may live and become numerous and, entering in, take possession of the land that the Lord your God swore to your fathers. 2 And you shall remember all the way that the Lord your God led you in the wilderness that he might afflict you and test you and to discern in your heart whether you will keep his commands or not. 3 And he afflicted you and weakened you by hunger and fed you manna, which your fathers did not see, in order to declare to you that a man 1 shall not live on only bread, but a man shall live on every word going out through the mouth of God.
Date: 3rd Century B.C.E. (based on scholarly estimates)
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The Hebrew version of Deuteronomy 8:2 highlights a forty-year period in the wilderness meant to humble and test Israel, but the Greek Septuagint translation removes the explicit mention of forty years.
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"... The LXX differs from the Masoretic text by utilizing the plural form “commandments” instead of the collective singular “commandment”. Although the Masoretic text only calls God יהוה, the LXX uses the phrase, “the Lord your God” (κύριος ὁ θεὸς ὑμῶν). If the Israelites keep God’s commandments, they will live, become numerous, and inherit the land God promised to their fathers. The Israelites should remember how God led them in the wilderness (Deuteronomy 8:2). Unlike 4Q30 and the Masoretic text, the LXX of Deuteronomy 8:2 does not mention forty years ..."
Winchester, Christopher
Thematic Association in the Gospel of Matthew: Situating Exegesis in the Gospel of Matthew in its Second Temple Context
(p. 188) University of Edinburgh, 2017
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