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Green's Literal Translation

Nehemiah 9:21

Yea, forty years You sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Clothing;   Israel;   Repentance;   Sin;   Thankfulness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Ingratitude to God;   Manna;   Prayer, Public;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ezra;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ezra, Book of;   Nehemiah;   Providence;   Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Canon of the Old Testament;   Ezra;   Ezra, Book of;   Nehemiah, Book of;   Prayer;   Synagogue;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Wilderness;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Prayer;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Swell;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Wilderness, Wanderings in the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You provided for them in the wilderness forty years,and they lacked nothing.Their clothes did not wear out,and their feet did not swell.
Hebrew Names Version
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.
King James Version
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.
English Standard Version
Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
New Century Version
You took care of them for forty years in the desert; they needed nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
New English Translation
For forty years you sustained them. Even in the desert they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Amplified Bible
"Indeed, for forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.
New American Standard Bible
"Indeed, for forty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not lacking; Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell up.
World English Bible
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.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thou didest also feede them fourtie yeres in ye wildernes: they lacked nothing: their clothes waxed not old, and their feete swelled not.
Legacy Standard Bible
Indeed, forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, and they did not lack;Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell.
Berean Standard Bible
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.
Contemporary English Version
You took good care of them, and for forty years they never lacked a thing. Their shoes didn't wear out, and their feet were never swollen.
Complete Jewish Bible
Yes, forty years you sustained them in the desert; they lacked nothing — their clothes did not wear out; their feet did not swell up.
Darby Translation
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.
Easy-to-Read Version
You took care of them for 40 years. They had all they needed in the desert. Their clothes didn't wear out, and their feet didn't swell and hurt.
George Lamsa Translation
Yea, for forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their shoes had no holes in them.
Good News Translation
Through forty years in the desert you provided all that they needed; their clothing never wore out, and their feet were not swollen with pain.
Lexham English Bible
Forty years you sustained them in the desert—they were not in need. Their clothing did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Miles 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.
American Standard Version
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
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.
Bishop's 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.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Yea, forty years didst Thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
King James Version (1611)
Yea fourtie yeeres diddest thou sustaine them in the wildernesse, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes wared not old, and their feet swelled not.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And thou didst sustain them forty years in the wilderness; thou didst not allow anything to fail them: their garments did not wax old, and their feet were not bruised.
English Revised Version
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Fourti yeer thou feddist hem in deseert, and no thing failide to hem; her clothis wexiden not elde, and her feet weren not hirt.
Update Bible Version
Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes didn't wax old, and their feet didn't swell.
Webster's Bible Translation
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [so that] they lacked nothing; their clothes grew not old, and their feet swelled not.
New King James Version
Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness,They lacked nothing;Their clothes did not wear out Deuteronomy 29:5 ">[fn] And their feet did not swell.
New Living Translation
For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell!
New Life Bible
For forty years You kept them alive in the desert and gave them everything they needed. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not become sore.
New Revised Standard
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea, forty years, didst thou sustain them in the desert, they lacked nothing, - their mantles, waxed not old and, their feet, swelled not.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn.
Revised Standard Version
Forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
Young's Literal Translation
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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Indeed, forty years You provided for them in the wilderness and they were not in want; Their clothes did not wear out, nor did their feet swell.

Contextual Overview

4 Then Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani and Chenani, of the Levites stood on the stairs and cried with a loud voice to Jehovah their God. 5 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah said, Stand up! Bless Jehovah your God forever and ever. And blessed be the Name of YourGlory, even He being exalted aboveall blessing and praise. 6 You alone are He , O Jehovah; You have made the heavens, and Heaven of the heavens, and all their host; the earth and all which is on it; the seas, and all that is in them; and Youshall preserve them all alive. And the host ofthe heavens bows down to You. 7 You are Jehovah the God who chose Abram, and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and appointed his name, Abraham. 8 And You found his heart faithful before You, and cut with him the covenant to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give performed Your Words, for You are righteous. 9 And You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their cry by the Sea of Reeds. 10 And You gave signs and wonders on Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the people of the land. For You knew that they were seething against them. And You made a name for Yourself, as it is this day. 11 And You divided the Sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the Sea on the dry land. And their pursuers You threw into the depths, like a stone into the mighty waters. 12 And You led them in the day by a cloudy pillar, and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way in which they should go. 13 And You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them right judgments and true laws, good statutes and commandments.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

forty: Exodus 16:35, Numbers 14:33, Numbers 14:34, Deuteronomy 2:7, Deuteronomy 8:2, Amos 5:25, Acts 13:18

their: Deuteronomy 8:4, Deuteronomy 29:5, Psalms 34:10

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:5 - this evil Joshua 5:12 - the manna Jeremiah 2:31 - Have I been Amos 2:10 - and led

Cross-References

Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah. Noah, a righteous man, had been perfected among his family. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 9:3
Every creeping thing which is alive shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green plant.
Genesis 9:4
But you shall not eat flesh in its life, its blood.
Genesis 9:15
And I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you, and every living soul in all flesh. And the waters shall not again become a flood to destroy all flesh.
Genesis 9:16
And the bow shall be in the clouds, and I shall see it, to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living soul, in all flesh on the earth.
Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, fermented drink is stirring, and each one straying by it is not wise.
Ecclesiastes 7:20
For there is not a just man on the earth who does good, and does not sin.
Romans 13:13
Let us walk becomingly, as in the day, not in carousings and drunkennesses, not in co-habitation and lustful acts, not in fighting and envy.
1 Corinthians 10:12
So that he that thinks to stand, let him be careful that he not fall.
Galatians 5:21
envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you beforehand, as I also said before, that the ones practicing such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing,.... As not for food, so neither for raiment, as follows:

their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not; of which see Deuteronomy 8:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 21. Their clothes waxed not oldDeuteronomy 8:4; Deuteronomy 8:4.


 
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