Deuteronomy 29:5
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New International Version (©2011)
Yet the LORD says, "During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.

New Living Translation (©2007)
For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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 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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
I led you 40 years in the wilderness; your clothes and the sandals on your feet did not wear out;

International Standard Version (©2012)
Though I've led you for 40 years in the desert, neither your clothes nor your shoes have worn out.

NET Bible (©2006)
I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
For 40 years I led you through the desert. During that time your clothes and shoes never wore out.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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 foot.

American King James Version
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old on you, and your shoe is not waxen old on your foot.

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.

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.

Darby Bible 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;

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.

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 shoes have not grown old on your feet.

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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

29:1-9 Both former mercies, and fresh mercies, should be thought on by us as motives to obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding heart, are the gift of God. All that have them, have them from him. God gives not only food and raiment, but wealth and large possessions, to many to whom he does not give grace. Many enjoy the gifts, who have not hearts to perceive the Giver, nor the true design and use of the gifts. We are bound, in gratitude and interest, as well as in duty and faithfulness, to keep the words of the covenant.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 5. - Having referred to the gracious dealing of God with them in the wilderness, Moses introduces Jehovah himself as speaking to them (cf. Deuteronomy 11:14). (On vers. 5 and 6, see Deuteronomy 8:3, 4; and on vers. 7 and 8, see Deuteronomy 2:26, etc.; Deuteronomy 3:1, etc.)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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; 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 rugged wilderness; and yet, thought they had been always in use during so long a time, were not worn out, which was really miraculous; See Gill on Deuteronomy 8:4.

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

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The Covenant in Moab
…4Yet the LORD has not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day. 5And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old on you, and your shoe is not waxen old on your foot. 6You have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the LORD your God. …

Exodus 7:7 Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Numbers 14:33 Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.
Deuteronomy 8:4 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.