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acared for you in the wilderness,
bIn the land of drought.
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Deuteronomy 2:7, Deuteronomy 32:10
Deuteronomy 2
7
"For the Lord your God has blessed you in all that you have done; He has known your wanderings through this agreat wilderness. These bforty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing."'
Deuteronomy 32
10
"aHe found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as bthe pupil of His eye.
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