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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="EXO.34.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Moses, &#8220;Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.34.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Moses was there with the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> forty days and forty nights without eating bread or drinking water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant&#8212;the Ten Commandments.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="EXO.34.28"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="EZR.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">There, by the Ahava Canal, I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="EZR.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">I was ashamed to ask the king for soldiers and horsemen to protect us from enemies on the road, because we had told the king, &#8220;The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZR.8.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">So we fasted and petitioned our God about this, and he answered our prayer.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="EZR.8.23"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ACT.14.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They preached the gospel in that city and won a large number of disciples. Then they returned to Lystra, Iconium and Antioch, </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ACT.14.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">strengthening the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the faith. &#8220;We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God,&#8221; they said. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ACT.14.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">Paul and Barnabas appointed elders</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">14:23 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Barnabas ordained elders</span><span class="ft">; or </span><span class="fqa">Barnabas had elders elected</span></span></span><span class="content"> for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord, in whom they had put their trust. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ACT.14.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">After going through Pisidia, they came into Pamphylia, </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.14.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">and when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down to Attalia.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ACT.14.25"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="MAT.6.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">  </span><span class="wj"><span class="content">&#8220;When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="MAT.6.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face,</span></span><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.6.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="wj"><span class="content">so that it will not be obvious to others that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.</span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="MAT.6.18"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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