Deuteronomy 8:4
What does Deuteronomy 8:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Deuteronomy 8:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862`Thy raiment hath not worn out from off thee, and thy foot hath not swelled these forty years,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not decayed for age, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Thy clothing grew not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
Context
v.3And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by everything that proceedeth out of the mouth of Jehovah doth man live.
v.4This passage
v.5And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Nehemiah 9:21
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
- Deuteronomy 29:5
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.
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