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+# Connecting Statement:
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+This is the fourth item in the list of characteristics that Moses reminds the Israelites that they must remember about "Yahweh your God" ([Deuteronomy 8:14](./14.md)) the first being that he "brought you out of Egypt" ([Deuteronomy 8:14](./14.md)), the second that he led them "through the ... wilderness" ([Deuteronomy 8:15](./15.md)), and the third that he "brought ... water out of the rock" ([Deuteronomy 8:15](./15.md)).
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 # He fed
 
 Moses continues to remind the Israelites of what they know about Yahweh ([Deuteronomy 8:14](../08/14.md)). "Yahweh fed"