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Nehemiah 9:21

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.

KJV

Quadraginta annis pavisti eos in deserto, nihilque eis defuit : vestimenta eorum non inveteraverunt, et pedes eorum non sunt attriti.

Vulgate

καὶ τεσσεράκοντα ἔτη διέθρεψας αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ· οὐχ ὑστέρησας· ἱμάτια αὐτῶν οὐκ ἐπαλαιώθησαν, καὶ πόδες αὐτῶν οὐ διερράγησαν.

LXX

Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

ASV

וְ/אַרְבָּעִ֥ים שָׁנָ֛ה כִּלְכַּלְתָּ֥/ם בַּ/מִּדְבָּ֖ר לֹ֣א חָסֵ֑רוּ שַׂלְמֹֽתֵי/הֶם֙ לֹ֣א בָל֔וּ וְ/רַגְלֵי/הֶ֖ם לֹ֥א בָצֵֽקוּ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

10 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אַרְבָּעִ֥ים
'rb'ym
adjective · 135×
בָצֵ֑קָה
btsqh
verb · 2×
ו
v
noun · 247×
וֹ
v
verb · 16×
יֶחְסַ֖ר
ychsr
verb · 21×
ךָ
k
verb · 37×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
מִּדְבָּ֑ר
mdbr
noun · 270×
שָׁנָ֔ה
shnh
verb · 877×
שְׂלָמוֹת֙
shlmvt
noun · 16×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Acts 13:18 — And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.
  • Amos 2:10 — Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.
  • Amos 5:25 — Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
  • Amos 5:25 — Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
  • Deut 2:7 — For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked noth
  • Deut 2:7 — For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked noth
  • Deut 8:2 — And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep
  • Deut 8:4 — Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
  • Deut 8:4 — Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
  • Deut 29:5 — 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.
  • Deut 29:5 — 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.
  • Exod 16:35 — And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
  • Num 14:33 — And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
  • Ps 34:10 — The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.