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 # Connecting Statement:
 
-This is the fourth item in the list of characteristics that Moses reminds the Israelites that they must remember about "Yahweh your God" ([Deuteronomy 8:14](./14.md)) the first being that he "brought you out of Egypt" ([Deuteronomy 8:14](./14.md)), the second that he led them "through the ... wilderness" ([Deuteronomy 8:15](./15.md)), and the third that he "brought ... water out of the rock" ([Deuteronomy 8:15](./15.md)).
+This is the fourth item in the list of characteristics that Moses reminds the Israelites that they must remember about "Yahweh your God" (verse 14). The first is that he "brought you out of Egypt" , the second that he led them "through the ... wilderness" (verse 15), and the third is that he "brought ... water out of the rock" (verse 15).
 
 # He fed
 
-Moses continues to remind the Israelites of what they know about Yahweh ([Deuteronomy 8:14](../08/14.md)). "Yahweh fed"
+"Yahweh fed"
 
 # to do you good