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**commandments.** Hebrew singular = every commandment.
**this day.** See note on [Deuteronomy 4:26](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/26) .
**the LORD** = Jehovah. App-4 .

**God** = Hebrew 'Elohim. App-4 .
**forty.** The number of Probation. See App-10 .
**to know** = get to know. Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .
**commandments.** Written in Hebrew text plural, but read singular, Compare [Deuteronomy 6:25](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/6/25) = the whole Law regarded as one great command.

**manna.** See note on [Exodus 16:31](../../../kjv/exodus/16/31) .
**man.** Hebrew. *'adam.* This verse quoted by Christ. [Matthew 4:4](../../../kjv/matthew/4/4) .[Luke 4:4](../../../kjv/luke/4/4) .
**by.** Figure of speech Ellipsis ( App-6 ) = "by [eating] bread".
**bread** = food, by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Species), App-6 ,
**by every.** Figure of speech *Ellipsis* ( App-6 ) = "by [keeping] every word": or by obeying.
**mouth.** Figure of speech *Anthropopatheia.* App-6 .

**Thy raiment.** Compare [Deuteronomy 29:5](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/29/5) .[Nehemiah 9:20](../../../kjv/nehemiah/9/20) , [Nehemiah 9:21](../../../kjv/nehemiah/9/21) . Not mentioned in Exodus, Leviticus, or Numbers.

**as** = according as.
**a man.** Hebrew ' *i* s *h* . App-14 .
**chasteneth** = correcteth, applicable to instruction as well as chastisement. [2 Samuel 7:14](../../../kjv/2-samuel/7/14) .[Psalms 89:32](../../../kjv/psalms/89/32) .[Proverbs 3:12](../../../kjv/proverbs/3/12) .
**his son.** Compare [Proverbs 3:12](../../../kjv/proverbs/3/12) and [Hebrews 12:5](../../../kjv/hebrews/12/5) , [Hebrews 12:6](../../../kjv/hebrews/12/6) .

**hills** = mountains.

**vines.** All three (fig, olive, and vine) mentioned in this verse. See notes on [Judges 9:8-12](../../../kjv/judges/9/8-12) .

**scarceness.** Hebrew. *miskenuth =* poverty, misery; occurs only here.
**brass** = bronze, or copper.

**forget.** Note the emphasis put on this by the Structure, as in the whole book. Compare [Judges 3:7](../../../kjv/judges/3/7) . [Hosea 13:6](../../../kjv/hosea/13/6) .
**judgments, and . . . statutes.** See note on [Deuteronomy 4:1](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/4/1) .

**and.** Note the Figure of speech *Polysyndeton* ( App-6 ), in [Deuteronomy 8:12](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/8/12) and [Deuteronomy 8:13](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/8/13) .

**bondage** = bondmen, put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct), App-6 .

**wilderness** = desert, Compare [Deuteronomy 1:19](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/19) .
**serpents.** Hebrew. *nachash.*
**drought.** Hebrew. *zimm'on.* Only here and [Psalms 107:33](../../../kjv/psalms/107/33) , and [Isaiah 35:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/35/7) . Who brought. Compare [Psalms 114:8](../../../kjv/psalms/114/8) .

**wealth.** Hebrew = strength, put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct) for the wealth it procures. App-6 .

**destroyeth.** Hebrew ' *abad* , cause to perish.

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