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.
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Gill's Exposition
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing,.... As not for food, so neither for raiment, as follows:
their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled…
Adam Clarke
Their clothes waxed not old - See the note on Deu 8:4.
We have here an account how the work of this fast-day was carried on. 1. The names of the ministers that were employed. They are twice named (Neh 9:4, Neh 9:5), only with some variation of the names.…
Cambridge Bible
The Forty Years in the Wilderness: Preservation
forty years… so that] R.V. forty years … and. The mention of the 40 years and of the fact that -they lacked nothing" shows that the origin of the clause…
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