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for forty days,[a] to be tempted by the devil. He ate nothing during those days, and when they were over he was hungry.(A) The devil said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread.” Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘One does not live by bread alone.’”(B)

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  1. 4:2 For forty days: the mention of forty days recalls the forty years of the wilderness wanderings of the Israelites during the Exodus (Dt 8:2).