Deuteronomy 29:5

Complete Jewish Bible

You didn't eat bread, and you didn't drink wine or other intoxicating liquor; this was so that you would know that ‘I am Adonai your God.'

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;

Hebrew Names Version
I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot.

King James Version
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.

Lexham English Bible
And I have led you forty years in the desert; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

English Standard Version
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet.

New Century Version
I led you through the desert for forty years, and during that time neither your clothes nor sandals wore out.

New English Translation
I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

Amplified Bible
"I have led you in the wilderness forty years; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.

New American Standard Bible
"And I have led you in the wilderness for forty years; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

Geneva Bible (1587)
And I haue led you fourty yere in the wildernesse: your clothes are not waxed olde vpon you, neyther is thy shooe waxed olde vpon thy foote.

Legacy Standard Bible
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

Darby Translation
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not grown old upon you, and thy sandal is not grown old upon thy foot;

Easy-to-Read Version
He led you through the desert for 40 years, and in all that time, your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

George Lamsa Translation
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes are not worn out upon you and your shoes are not worn out upon your feet.

Good News Translation
For forty years the Lord led you through the desert, and your clothes and sandals never wore out.

Literal Translation
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments have not worn out from off you, and your sandal has not worn away off your foot.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He hath caused you to walke fortye yeares in the wyldernesse. Youre clothes are not waxed olde vpon you, nether is thy shue waxed olde on thy fote.

American Standard Version
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.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And I haue led you fourtie yeres in the wildernesse: and your clothes are not waxed olde vpon you, and thy shoe is not waxed olde vpon thy foote.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

King James Version (1611)
And I haue led you fourtie yeres in the wildernes: your clothes are not waxen old vpon you, and thy shooe is not waxen old vpon thy foot.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And he led you forty years in the wilderness; your garments did not grow old, and your sandals were not worn away off your feet.

English Revised Version
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.

Berean Standard Bible
During the forty years I led you in the wilderness, neither your clothes nor the sandals on your feet wore out.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
He ledde you bi fourti yeer thoruy deseert; youre clothis weren not brokun, nether the schoon of youre feet weren waastid bi eldnesse;

Young's Literal Translation
and I cause you to go forty years in a wilderness; your garments have not been consumed from off you, and thy shoe hath not worn away from off thy foot;

Update Bible Version
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old on you, and your shoes have not waxed old on your feet.

Webster's Bible Translation
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not become old upon you, and thy shoe hath not become old upon thy foot.

World English Bible
I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot.

New King James Version
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandals have not worn out on your feet.

New Living Translation
For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

New Life Bible
I have led you forty years in the desert. Your clothes did not wear out. And your shoes did not wear out on your feet.

New Revised Standard
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I led you, therefore forty years in the desert, - your mantles fell not with age, from off you, even thy sandal, fell not with age from off thy foot:

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.

Revised Standard Version
I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out upon you, and your sandals have not worn off your feet;

THE MESSAGE
I took you through the wilderness for forty years and through all that time the clothes on your backs didn't wear out, the sandals on your feet didn't wear out, and you lived well without bread and wine and beer, proving to you that I am in fact God , your God.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I have led you forty years in the wilderness; your clothes have not worn out on you, and your sandal has not worn out on your foot.

Contextual Overview

¹ (vii) Then Moshe summoned all Isra'el and said to them, "You saw everything Adonai did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants and to all his land; ² the great testings which you saw with your own eyes, and the signs and those great wonders. ³ Nevertheless, to this day Adonai has not given you a heart to understand, eyes to see or ears to hear! ⁴ I led you forty years in the desert. Neither the clothes on your body nor the shoes on your feet wore out. ⁵ You didn't eat bread, and you didn't drink wine or other intoxicating liquor; this was so that you would know that ‘I am Adonai your God.' ⁶ (Maftir) When you arrived at this place, Sichon the king of Heshbon and ‘Og the king of Bashan advanced against us in battle, and we defeated them, ⁷ took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Re'uveni, the Gadi and the M'nashi. ⁸ Therefore, observe the words of this covenant and obey them; so that you can make everything you do prosper. Haftarah Ki Tavo: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 60:1–22 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Ki Tavo: Mattityahu (Matthew) 13:1–23; Luke 21:1–4; Acts 28:17–31; Romans 11:1–15 [In regular years read with Parashah 52, in leap years read separately] "Today you are standing, all of you, before Adonai your God — your heads, your tribes, your leaders and your officers — all the men of Isra'el, along with your little ones, your wives and your foreigners here with you in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water. The purpose is that you should enter into the covenant of Adonai your God and into his oath which Adonai your God is making with you today, (LY: ii) so that he can establish you today for himself as a people, and so that for you he will be God — as he said to you and as he swore to your ancestors, to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov. "But I am not making this covenant and this oath only with you. Rather, I am making it both with him who is standing here with us today before Adonai our God and also with him who is not here with us today. (LY: iii) For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we came directly through the nations you passed through; and you saw their detestable things and their idols of wood, stone, silver and gold that they had with them. So let there not be among you a man, woman, family or tribe whose heart turns away today from Adonai our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Let there not be among you a root bearing such bitter poison and wormwood. If there is such a person, when he hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself secretly, saying to himself, ‘I will be all right, even though I will stubbornly keep doing whatever I feel like doing; so that I, although "dry," [sinful,] will be added to the "watered" [righteous].' But Adonai will not forgive him. Rather, the anger and jealousy of Adonai will blaze up against that person. Every curse written in this book will be upon him. Adonai will blot out his name from under heaven. Adonai will single him out from all the tribes of Isra'el to experience what is bad in all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the Torah. "When the next generation, your children who will grow up after you, and the foreigner who arrives from a distant land, see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which Adonai has made it sick, and that the whole land has become burning sulfur and salt, that it isn't being sown or bearing crops or even producing grass — like the overthrow of S'dom, ‘Amora, Admah and Tzvoyim, which Adonai overthrew in his furious anger — then all the nations will ask, ‘Why did Adonai do this to this land? What is the meaning of such frenzied, furious anger?' People will answer, ‘It's because they abandoned the covenant of Adonai , the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went and served other gods, prostrating themselves before them, gods they had not known and which he had not assigned them. For this reason, the anger of Adonai blazed up against this land and brought upon it every curse written in this book; and Adonai , in anger, fury and incensed with indignation, uprooted them from their land and threw them out into another land — as it is today.' "Things which are hidden belong to Adonai our God. But the things that have been revealed belong to us and our children forever, so that we can observe all the words of this Torah. ⁹ Therefore, observe the words of this covenant and obey them; so that you can make everything you do prosper. Haftarah Ki Tavo: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 60:1–22 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Ki Tavo: Mattityahu (Matthew) 13:1–23; Luke 21:1–4; Acts 28:17–31; Romans 11:1–15 [In regular years read with Parashah 52, in leap years read separately] "Today you are standing, all of you, before Adonai your God — your heads, your tribes, your leaders and your officers — all the men of Isra'el,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have led: Deuteronomy 1:3, Deuteronomy 8:2

your clothes: Deuteronomy 8:4, Nehemiah 9:21, Matthew 6:31, Matthew 6:32

and thy shoe: Joshua 9:5, Joshua 9:13, Matthew 10:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:7 - General Deuteronomy 2:7 - these forty

Cross-References

Genesis 24:24
She answered, "I am the daughter of B'tu'el the son Milkah bore to Nachor,"

Genesis 24:29
Rivkah had a brother named Lavan. When he saw the nose-ring, and the bracelets on his sister's wrists besides, and when he heard his sister Rivkah's report of what the man had said to her, he ran out to the spring and found the man standing there by the camels.

Genesis 31:53
May the God of Avraham and also the god of Nachor, the god of their father, judge between us." But Ya‘akov swore by the One his father Yitz'chak feared.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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; :-;

and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot; which were necessary to wear in travelling, and especially in a rugged wilderness; and yet, thought they had been always in use during so long a time, were not worn out, which was really miraculous; :-.

d Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. p. 447.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 29:5. Your clothes are not waxen old — Deuteronomy 8:4.