Your clothing didn’t grow old on you, neither did your foot swell, these forty years.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
- BSB Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
- NKJV Your garments did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
- NASB Your clothing did not wear out on you, nor did your foot swell these forty years.
- NLT For all these forty years your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t blister or swell.
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Cross-references · 3
- Deut 29:5I have led you forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoes have not grown old on your feet.
- Neh 9:21“Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow old, and their feet didn’t swell.
- Matt 26:25–30Judas, who betrayed him, answered, “It isn’t me, is it, Rabbi?” He said to him, “You said it.”
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