Deuteronomy 8:2

Context
8:2 Remember the whole way by which he¹ has brought you these forty years through the desert² so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

Deuteronomy 9:4

Context
9:4 Do not think to yourself after the Lord your God has driven them out before you, “Because of my own righteousness the Lord has brought me here to possess this land.” It is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord is driving them out ahead of you.

[8:2] ¹tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons.

[8:2] ²tn Or “wilderness” (so KJV, NRSV, NLT); likewise in v. 15.