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 # Connecting Statement:
 
-This verse gives the second and third items in the list of characteristics that Moses reminds the Israelites they must remember about "Yahweh your God" (verse 14). The first being that he "brought you out of Egypt", the second that he led them "through the ... wilderness," and the third that he "brought ... water out of the rock."
+This verse gives the second and third items in the list of characteristics that Moses reminds the Israelites 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," and the third that he "brought ... water out of the rock."
 
 # General Information: