Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
That ye might know that I am the Lord your God. In taking a retrospect of all the way by which they had been led "these forty years" (Deuteronomy 8:2), the design of Moses was to exhort the people to obedience, by working upon their sense of gratitude, and tell them that all those wonders which were done in Egypt before their eyes, and afterward in the wilderness for their support, were in order that they might be educated to the practical knowledge of Yahweh as their God.