John Gill Commentary Deuteronomy 29:5

"And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxed old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxed old upon thy foot." — Deuteronomy 29:5 (ASV)

And I have led you forty years in the wilderness
From the time of their coming out of Egypt to 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 grown 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 your shoe is not grown old upon your 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.