Nehemiah 9:21
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.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderss, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
Yea, forty{H705} years{H8141} didst thou sustain{H3557} them in the wilderness,{H4057} [and] they lacked{H2637} nothing; their clothes{H8008} waxed not old,{H1086} and their feet{H7272} swelled{H1216} not.
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
Yea, forty{H705} years{H8141} didst thou sustain{H3557}{(H8773)} them in the wilderness{H4057}, so that they lacked{H2637}{(H8804)} nothing; their clothes{H8008} waxed not old{H1086}{(H8804)}, and their feet{H7272} swelled{H1216}{(H8804)} not.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Fortye yeares longe madest thou prouysion for them in the wyldernesse, so that they wanted nothinge: their clothes waxed not olde, and their fete swelled not.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Thou didest also feede them fourtie yeres in ye wildernes: they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not old, and their feete swelled not.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
Fourtie yeres long didst thou feede them in the wildernesse, so that they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not olde, and their feete swelled not.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
Yes, forty years did you sustain them in the wilderness, [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet didn't swell.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
and forty years Thou hast nourished them in a wilderness; they have not lacked; their garments have not worn out, and their feet have not swelled.
American Standard Version (1901)
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, `and' they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
American Standard Version (1901)
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
Truly, 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.
World English Bible (2000)
"Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn't grow old, and their feet didn't swell.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
For forty years you sustained them. Even in the wilderness they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Referenced Verses
- Deut 2:7 : 7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hands; He knows your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.
- Deut 8:4 : 4 Your clothing did not wear out upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
- Deut 29:5 : 5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your shoes have not worn out upon your feet.
- Ps 34:10 : 10 The young lions lack and suffer hunger: but those who seek the LORD shall not lack any good thing.
- Amos 5:25 : 25 Did you offer to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?
- Acts 13:18 : 18 And for about forty years he cared for them in the wilderness.
- Deut 8:2 : 2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
- Exod 16:35 : 35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
- Num 14:33-34 : 33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your faithlessness, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness. 34 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.
Similar Verses (AI)
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- Deut 8:2-43 verses87%
2 And you shall remember all the way which the LORD your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
3 And he humbled you, and allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna, which you did not know, neither did your fathers know; that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of the LORD does man live.
4 Your clothing did not wear out upon you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
- Deut 29:5-62 verses86%
5 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your shoes have not worn out upon your feet.
6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
- Neh 9:19-202 verses80%
19 Yet in Your overwhelming mercies, You did not forsake them in the wilderness; the pillar of cloud did not depart from them by day to lead them on the way, nor the pillar of fire by night to show them light and the way they should go.
20 You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, and did not withhold Your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
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18 And for about forty years he cared for them in the wilderness.
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7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hands; He knows your walking through this great wilderness. These forty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.
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15 You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger, and brought forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promised them that they would go in to possess the land which You had sworn to give them.
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31 And in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.
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6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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35 And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
- Deut 8:15-162 verses73%
15 Who led you through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you water out of the rock of flint;
16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know, that he might humble you, and that he might test you, to do you good at your latter end;
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9 When your fathers tested Me, proved Me, and saw My works forty years.
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25 Did you offer to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness for forty years, O house of Israel?
- Neh 9:22-232 verses73%
22 Moreover, You gave them kingdoms and nations, and divided them into districts: So they possessed the land of Sihon, the land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
23 You also multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land which You had promised to their forefathers they would enter and possess.
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5 And patched up old shoes on their feet, and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.
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5 And what He did for you in the wilderness, until you came to this place;
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10 Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
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36 He brought them out, after he showed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness for forty years.
- Neh 9:11-122 verses72%
11 You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and You threw their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.
12 Moreover, You led them by day with a pillar of cloud, and by night with a pillar of fire, to give them light on the way they should go.
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17 But with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?
- Num 14:33-342 verses72%
33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your faithlessness, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
34 After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my breach of promise.
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40 How often did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert!
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14 And the time we took to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from the camp, as the LORD swore to them.
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30 Yet for many years You had patience with them and testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets. Yet they would not give ear; therefore, You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
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21 And they did not thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.
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6 Neither did they say, Where is the LORD who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed through, and where no one lived?
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13 And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed.
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10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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9 When I went up into the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights, I neither ate bread nor drank water:
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7 And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
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33 Who went in the way before you, to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, in fire by night to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.
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13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and look, they are torn: and these garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.
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11 Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me,
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17 They refused to obey, and were not mindful of Your wonders that You did among them. But they hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, and did not forsake them.
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14 But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.
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10 And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, lo, I am this day eighty-five years old.
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17 Nevertheless my eye spared them from destroying them, nor did I make an end of them in the wilderness.
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5 I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
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22 Or whether it was two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud lingered upon the tabernacle, remaining on it, the children of Israel remained in their tents and did not journey: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
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19 And when the cloud lingered long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the LORD and did not journey.
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46 So you stayed in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you stayed there.
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19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great and terrible wilderness, which you saw by the way of the mountain of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh Barnea.