Nehemiah 9:21

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [so that] they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

Yea, forty {H705} years {H8141} didst thou sustain {H3557} them in the wilderness {H4057}, so that they lacked {H2637} nothing; their clothes {H8008} waxed not old {H1086}, and their feet {H7272} swelled {H1216} not.

Yes, forty years you sustained them in the desert; they lacked nothing -their clothes did not wear out; their feet did not swell up.

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.

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

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Cross-References

  • Deuteronomy 2:7 (9 votes)

    For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

  • Deuteronomy 8:4 (6 votes)

    Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

  • Psalms 34:10 (4 votes)

    The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].

  • Amos 5:25 (3 votes)

    Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?

  • Exodus 16:35 (3 votes)

    And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

  • Deuteronomy 8:2 (3 votes)

    And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

  • Deuteronomy 29:5 (3 votes)

    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.