Deuteronomy 29:5

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.

And I have led {H3212} you forty {H705} years {H8141} in the wilderness {H4057}: your clothes {H8008} are not waxen old {H1086} upon you, and thy shoe {H5275} is not waxen old {H1086} upon thy foot {H7272}.

I led you forty years in the desert. Neither the clothes on your body nor the shoes on your feet wore out.

For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

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.

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Cross-References

  • Deuteronomy 8:4 (11 votes)

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

  • Nehemiah 9:21 (8 votes)

    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.

  • Deuteronomy 8:2 (6 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 1:3 (5 votes)

    And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first [day] of the month, [that] Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment unto them;

  • Matthew 10:10 (5 votes)

    Nor scrip for [your] journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.

  • Matthew 6:31 (5 votes)

    Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

  • Matthew 6:32 (5 votes)

    (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.