Deuteronomy 29:5
For forty years I have been your guide through the waste land: your clothing has not become old on your backs, or your shoes on your feet.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
6You have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 1:3Now in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses gave to the children of Israel all the orders which the Lord had given him for them;
Deuteronomy 8:3And he made low your pride and let you be without food and gave you manna for your food, a thing new to you, which your fathers never saw; so that he might make it clear to you that bread is not man's only need, but his life is in every word which comes out of the mouth of the Lord.
Joshua 9:5And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old clothing on their backs; and all the food they had with them was dry and broken up.
Nehemiah 9:21Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.
Matthew 6:31Then do not be full of care, saying, What are we to have for food or drink? or, With what may we be clothed?
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:2-10
Mercies Called to Remembrance. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land; 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles: 4 Yet the… Read the whole commentary →