"Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years." — Deuteronomy 8:4

Deuteronomy 8:4 · KJV

“Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.”

— Deuteronomy 8:4

And 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 every {word} that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.

Verse 5

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, {so} the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

Deuteronomy 8 — Context

And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, {and} to prove thee, to know what {was} in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, {so} the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:5

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.

Nehemiah 9:21

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.

Matthew 26:25-30

Then Judas, which betrayed him, answered and said, Master, is it I? He said unto him, Thou hast said.