⁷ For the Lord your God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these forty years, the Lord your God has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.”’

⁴ For all these forty years your clothes didn’t wear out, and your feet didn’t blister or swell.

¹⁸ He put up with them^[a] through forty years of wandering in the wilderness.

²⁵ “Was it to me you were bringing sacrifices and offerings during the forty years in the wilderness, Israel?

⁵ For forty years I led you through the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

² Remember how the Lord your God led you through the wilderness for these forty years, humbling you and testing you to prove your character, and to find out whether or not you would obey his commands.

³³ And your children will be like shepherds, wandering in the wilderness for forty years. In this way, they will pay for your faithlessness, until the last of you lies dead in the wilderness.

³⁴ “‘Because your men explored the land for forty days, you must wander in the wilderness for forty years—a year for each day, suffering the consequences of your sins. Then you will discover what it is like to have me for an enemy.’

³⁵ So the people of Israel ate manna for forty years until they arrived at the land where they would settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.