²⁵ So he cried out to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree. ^(A)When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet.

There He ^(B)made a statute and an ^[a]ordinance for them, and there ^(C)He tested them,

² And you shall remember that the Lord your God ^(A)led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and ^(B)test you, ^(C)to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

⁴ And they were left, that He might test Israel by them, to ^[a]know whether they would obey the commandments of the Lord, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

²² so ^(A)that through them I may ^(B)test Israel, whether they will keep the ways of the Lord, to walk in them as their fathers kept them, or not.”

The Nations Remaining in the Land

3 Now these are ^(A)the nations which the Lord left, that He might test Israel by them, that is, all who had not ^[a]known any of the wars in Canaan

¹⁶ who fed you in the wilderness with ^(A)manna, which your fathers did not know, that He might humble you and that He might test you, ^(B)to do you good in the end—

⁴ Then the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain ^(A)bread from heaven for you. And the people shall go out and gather ^[a]a certain quota every day, that I may ^(B)test them, whether they will ^(C)walk in My law or not.

²¹ Then he went out to the source of the water, and ^(A)cast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the Lord: ‘I have ^[a]healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’ ”