Nehemiah 9:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

You kept them alive for forty years— they lacked nothing in the wilderness! Their clothes didn’t wear out, and their feet didn’t swell.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For forty years, you fed them in the desert, and nothing was lacking to them; their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn down.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn.

Nehemiah 9:21 Cross References

Psalm 34:10

The young lions suffer want and hunger, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a habitable land; they ate manna, until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Amos 5:25

Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings the forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

Acts 13:18

For about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:7

Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’

Deuteronomy 29:5

I have led you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out;

Deuteronomy 8:2

Remember the long way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, in order to humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commandments.

Deuteronomy 8:4

The clothes on your back did not wear out, and your feet did not swell these forty years.