8:16 fed you in the desert with manna (which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you 1 and eventually bring good to you.
Deuteronomy 8:2
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he 2 has brought you these forty years through the desert 3 so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.
1 tnHeb “in order to humble you and in order to test you.” See 8:2.
2 tnHeb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.
3 tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.