en_tn/mat/04/04.md

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Jesus rebukes Satan with a quotation from Deuteronomy.

It is written

This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "Moses wrote this in the scriptures long ago" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive)

Man does not live on bread alone

This implies that there is something more important to life than food.

but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God

Here "word" and "mouth" refer to what God says. Alternate translation: "but by listening to everything that God says" (See: rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy)