Deuteronomy 29:5
3 You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
4 Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out against us in battle, but we defeated them.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.
- KJV
- And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
- WEB
- I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your sandals have not grown old on your feet.
- ASV
- And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot.
- DARBY
- And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot;
- BLB
- And I have led you⁺ forty years in the wilderness; your⁺ garments have not worn out from you⁺, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.
- ÅB
- Jeg lot dere vandre førti år i ørkenen; deres klær ble ikke utslitt, og skoen ble ikke utslitt på din fot.
- OTB
- Jeg har ledet dere gjennom ørkenen i førti år; klærne deres ble ikke utslitt på dere, heller ikke sandalene på føttene deres.
- B1930
- Jeg lot eder vandre firti år i ørkenen; eders klær blev ikke utslitt, og skoen blev ikke utslitt på din fot.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 8:4
Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:21
For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:2
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 1:3
In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.
Read in contextMatthew 10:10
Take no bag for the road, or second tunic, or sandals, or staff; for the worker is worthy of his provisions.
Read in contextMatthew 6:31–32
Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’
Read in contextJoshua 9:13
These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look, they are cracked. And these clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey.”
Read in contextJoshua 9:5
They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.
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