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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
led	יָלַךְ yâlak	H3212	to walk (literally or figuratively)
forty	אַרְבָּעִ֥ים 'ar.ba.'Im	H705	forty · noun, common masculine plural absolute
years	שָׁנָ֖ה sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
wilderness	בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר ba.mid.Bar	H4057	a pasture (i.e. open field · preposition with the article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
clothes	שַׂלְמֹֽתֵיכֶם֙ sal.mo.tei.Khem	H8008	a dress · noun, common feminine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
old	בָל֤וּ va.Lu	H1086	to fail · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
shoe	וְנַֽעַלְךָ֥ ve.na.'al.Kha	H5275	properly · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
old	בָלְתָ֖ה val.Tah	H1086	to fail · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person feminine singular
foot	רַגְלֶֽךָ rag.Le.kha	H7272	a foot (as used in walking) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular

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Cross-references

Deuteronomy 8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
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…
Deuteronomy 8:2 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,…
Deuteronomy 1:3 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…
Matthew 6:31-32 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?
Matthew 10:10 Nor scrip for your journey, neither two coats, neither shoes, nor yet staves: for the workman is worthy of his meat.
Joshua 9:5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
Joshua 9:13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reas…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:1-9

Now that Moses had largely repeated the commands which the people were to observe as their part of the covenant, and the promises and threatenings which God would make good (according as they behaved themselves) as part of the covenant, the whole is here summed up in a federal transaction. The covenant formerly made is here renewed, and Moses, who was before, is still, the mediator of it (Deu 29:1): The Lord commanded Moses to make it. Moses himself, though king in Jeshurun, could not make the covenant any otherwise than as God gave him instructions. It does not lie in the power of ministers to fix the terms of the covenant; they are only to dispense the seals of it. This is said to be besid…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 29:2

Moses called unto all Israel, . . . Ye have seen all that the Lord did, &c.--This appeal to the experience of the people, though made generally, was applicable only to that portion of them who had been very young at the period of the Exodus, and who remembered the marvellous transactions that preceded and followed that era. Yet, alas! those wonderful events made no good impression upon them (Deu 29:4). They were strangers to that grace of wisdom which is liberally given to all who ask it; and their insensibility was all the more inexcusable that so many miracles had been performed which might have led to a certain conviction of the presence and the power of God with them. The preservation of…

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John Gill on Deuteronomy 29:5

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness,.... From the time of their coming out of Egypt unto that day, which though not quite complete, is given as a round number. Eupolemus (d), an Heathen writer, confirms this date of the ministry of Moses among the Israelites; he says, Moses performed the office of a prophet forty years: your clothes are not waxen old upon you: were not worn out; all those forty years they had been in the wilderness, they had never wanted clothes fitting for them, according to their age and stature, and which decayed not; See Gill on Deuteronomy 8:4, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot; which were necessary to wear in travelling, and especially in a rug…

The Church Fathers

And he led you for forty years in the desert. Your clothes did not age, and your skins were not broken by your feet. You did not eat bread; you did not drink wine or fermented drink, so that you would know that this is the Lord your God. From this it follows that the Israelites were able to carry in their impediment, when they left Egypt, the amount of wine they could consume immediately, because if they had not taken anything with them, where would that come from what has been said: The people sat down to eat and they got up to play? (Ex 32,6) Because this could not be said of the water, when the clear words of Moses are that this affirmation was not the beginning of a war, but the beginning of a party (Cf Ex 32,6.18).
— Augustine of Hippo, QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 51 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)

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Dictionary and topics

Covenant — A contract or agreement between two parties. In the Old Testament the Hebrew word berith is always thus translated. Berith is derived from a root which means “to cut,” and hence a covenant is a…
Clothing · Of the Israelites, did not become old — Of the Israelites, did not become old
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · Their clothing preserved during — Their clothing preserved during
Shoe · Of the people of Israel did not get old — Of the people of Israel did not get old
Shoes · Of Israel preserved for forty years, while journeying in the wilderness — Of Israel preserved for forty years, while journeying in the wilderness

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Deuteronomy 29:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 29:2

John Gill on Deuteronomy 29:5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Deuteronomy 29:5

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 29:2

John Gill on Deuteronomy 29:5

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Deuteronomy 29:2-9

Keil & Delitzsch on Deuteronomy 29:5-8

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 29:2–end

Rashi on Deuteronomy 29:3