📜WEB · Deuteronomy 29:5
What does Deuteronomy 29:5 mean?
"I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet."
— Deuteronomy 29:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Moses called to all Israel, and said to them: Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
the great trials which your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders.
But Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink; that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
When you came to this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us to battle, and we struck them.
We took their land, and gave it for an inheritance to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of the Manassites.
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