Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’
Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years.
The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
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.
And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.
And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.’
The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
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