Deuteronomy 1:31
Good News Translation
and in the desert. You saw how he brought you safely all the way to this place, just as a father would carry his son.'

New Revised Standard Version
and in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD your God carried you, just as one carries a child, all the way that you traveled until you reached this place.

Contemporary English Version
And you know that the LORD has taken care of us the whole time we've been in the desert, just as you might carry one of your children."

New American Bible
as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the LORD, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place.

in the wilderness

Exodus 16:1-17:16 And they set forward from Elim, and all the multitude of the children of Israel came into the desert of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai: the fifteenth day of the second month, after they came out of the land of Egypt. . . .

Nehemiah 9:12-23 And in a pillar of a cloud thou wast their leader by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, that they might see the way by which they went. . . .

Psalm 78:14-28 And he conducted them with a cloud by day: and all the night with a light of fire. . . .

Psalm 105:39-41 He spread a cloud for their protection, and fire to give them light in the night. . . .

bare thee

Deuteronomy 32:11,12 As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders. . . .

Exodus 19:4 You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians, how I have carried you upon the wings of eagles, and have taken you to myself.

Numbers 11:11,12,14 And he said to the Lord: Why hast thou afflicted thy servant? Wherefore do I not find favour before thee? And why hast thou laid the weight of all this people upon me? . . .

Isaiah 40:11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young.

Isaiah 46:3,4 They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity. . . .

Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

Hosea 11:3,4 And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them. . . .

Acts 13:18 And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:

Context
Israel's Rebellion
30The Lord God, who is your leader, himself will fight for you, as he did in Egypt in the sight of all. 31And in the wilderness (as thou hast seen) the Lord thy God hath carried thee, as a man is wont to carry his little son, all the way that you have come, until you came to this place.32And yet for all this you did not believe the Lord your God,…
Cross References
Acts 13:18
And for the space of forty years endured their manners in the desert:

Deuteronomy 32:6
Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Psalm 28:9
Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them and exalt them for ever.

Isaiah 46:3
They are consumed, and are broken together: they could not save him that carried them, and they themselves shall go into captivity.

Isaiah 46:4
Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.

Isaiah 63:9
In all their affliction he was not troubled, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love, and in his mercy he redeemed them, and he carried them and lifted them up all the days of old.

Jeremiah 31:32
Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.

Hosea 11:3
And I was like a foster father to Ephraim, I carried them in my arms: and they knew not that I healed them.

Malachi 1:6
The son honoureth the father, and the servant his master: if then I be a father, where is my honour? and if I be a master, where is my fear: saith the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 1:30
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