Deuteronomy 29:6
4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
5 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.
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
7 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:
8 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
- KJV
- Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
- WEB
- You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
- ASV
- Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.
- DARBY
- ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye might know that I am Jehovah your God.
- BLB
- Bread you⁺ have not eaten, and wine and strong drink you⁺ have not drunk, so that you⁺ may know that I [am] YHWH your⁺ God.
- ÅB
- Brød fikk dere ikke å spise, og vin eller sterk drikk fikk dere ikke å drikke, for at dere skulle kjenne at jeg, Herren, er deres Gud.
- OTB
- Dere har ikke spist brød eller drukket vin eller annen gjæret drikk, for at dere skal vite at jeg er Herren deres Gud.
- B1930
- Brød fikk I ikke å ete, og vin eller sterk drikk fikk I ikke å drikke, forat I skulde kjenne at jeg, Herren, er eders Gud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
Read in contextEphesians 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Read in contextNehemiah 9:15
And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
Read in contextExodus 16:12
I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God.
Read in context1 Corinthians 10:4
And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.
Read in contextNumbers 20:8
Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.
Read in contextPsalms 78:24–25
And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:25
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.
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