Deuteronomy 29:6

6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.”

Deuteronomy 29:6 in Other Translations

KJV
6 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
ESV
6 You have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
NLT
6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or other alcoholic drink, but he provided for you so you would know that he is the LORD your God.
MSG
6 and you lived well without bread and wine and beer, proving to you that I am in fact God, your God.
CSB
6 you did not eat bread or drink wine or beer-so that you might know that I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 29:6 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 29:6

Ye have not eaten bread
Bread made of corn, common bread, of their own preparing, made by the labour of their own hands; but manna, the food of angelS, the bread of heaven:

neither have you drank wine, nor strong drink;
only water out of the rock, at least chiefly, and for constancy; though it may be, when they were on the borders of other countries, as of the Edomites, they might obtain some wine for their money:

that ye might know that I [am] the Lord your God;
who was both able and willing to provide food, drink, and raiment for them, and supply them with all good things, and support them without the use of the common necessaries of life; which were abundant proofs of his power and goodness.

Deuteronomy 29:6 In-Context

4 But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind that understands or eyes that see or ears that hear.
5 Yet the LORD says, “During the forty years that I led you through the wilderness, your clothes did not wear out, nor did the sandals on your feet.
6 You ate no bread and drank no wine or other fermented drink. I did this so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.”
7 When you reached this place, Sihon king of Heshbon and Og king of Bashan came out to fight against us, but we defeated them.
8 We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Leviticus 10:9
  • 2. Deuteronomy 8:3
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