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I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes have not grown old on you, and your shoe has not grown old on your foot.
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A Forty-Year Miracle
Commentators unanimously describe the preservation of Israel's clothing and shoes for forty years as a clear miracle. Scholars like John Gill emphasize that this was not a natural occurrence but a supernatural sign of God's constant, tangible care for His people in the harsh conditions of the wilderness.
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Deuteronomy
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19th Century
Anglican
See on Deuteronomy 8:4.
Baptist
Either there had been means of frequent renewal of their garments, or else by a miracle these garments had never worn out; and the very shoes that …
16th Century
Protestant
And I have led you. He then proceeds to the blessings with which He had continually favored His people during forty years. Yet he does not…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness From the time of their coming out of Egypt to that day, which thoug…
Presbyterian
Both past mercies, and new mercies, should be considered by us as motives for obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding hea…
