Shēnméngjì 29:5

5 Wǒ lǐng nǐmen zaì kuàngyĕ sì shí nián , nǐmen shēnshang de yīfu bìng méiyǒu chuān pò , jiǎo shàng de xié yĕ méiyǒu chuān huaì .

Shēnméngjì 29:5 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 29:5

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness
From the time of their coming out of Egypt unto that day, which though not quite complete, is given as a round number. Eupolemus ^F4, an Heathen writer, confirms this date of the ministry of Moses among the Israelites; he says, Moses performed the office of a prophet forty years:

your clothes are not waxen old upon you:
were not worn out; all those forty years they had been in the wilderness, they had never wanted clothes fitting for them, according to their age and stature, and which decayed not; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 8:4);

and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot;
which were necessary to wear in travelling, and especially in a rugged wilderness; and yet, thought they had been always in use during so long a time, were not worn out, which was really miraculous; (See Gill on Deuteronomy 8:4).

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. p. 447.

Shēnméngjì 29:5 In-Context

3 Jiù shì nǐ qīnyǎn kànjian de dà shìyàn hé shénjī , bìng nàxiē dà qí shì .

4 Dàn Yēhéhuá dào jīnrì méiyǒu shǐ nǐmen xīn néng míngbai , yǎn néng kànjian , ĕr néng tīngjian .

5 Wǒ lǐng nǐmen zaì kuàngyĕ sì shí nián , nǐmen shēnshang de yīfu bìng méiyǒu chuān pò , jiǎo shàng de xié yĕ méiyǒu chuān huaì .

6 Nǐmen méiyǒu chī bǐng , yĕ méiyǒu hē qīng jiǔ nóng jiǔ . zhè yào shǐ nǐmen zhīdào , Yēhéhuá shì nǐmen de shén .

7 Nǐmen lái dào zhè dìfang , Xīshíbĕn wáng Xīhóng , Bāshān wáng Ě dōu chūlai yǔ wǒmen jiāo zhàn , wǒmen jiù jī shā le tāmen ,