Deuteronomy 8:5
“Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.”
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Deuteronomy 8:5 Context
3And he humbled thee, and suffred thee to hunger, and fed thee with Manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know: that he might make thee know, that man doth not liue by bread onely, but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man liue. 4Thy raiment waxed not old vpon thee, neither did thy foote swell these fourtie yeeres. 5Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. 6Therefore thou shalt keepe the Commandements of the Lord thy God, to walke in his wayes, and to feare him. 7For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a lande of brookes of water, of fountaines, and depths that spring out of valleys and hilles,
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Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, [so] the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
- King James Version
"Thus you are to know in your heart that the LORD your God was disciplining you just as a man disciplines his son.
- New American Standard Version (1995)