21 You provided for them in the wilderness forty years,(A)
and they lacked nothing.
Their clothes did not wear out,
and their feet did not swell.(B)

22 You gave them kingdoms and peoples
and established boundaries for them.
They took possession
of the land of King Sihon[a] of Heshbon
and of the land of King Og of Bashan.(C)
23 You multiplied their descendants
like the stars of the sky(D)
and brought them to the land
you told their ancestors to go in and possess.

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  1. 9:22 One Hb ms, LXX; other Hb mss, Vg read of Sihon, even the land of the king

21 For forty years(A) you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing,(B) their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.(C)

22 “You gave them kingdoms and nations, allotting to them even the remotest frontiers. They took over the country of Sihon[a](D) king of Heshbon and the country of Og king of Bashan.(E) 23 You made their children as numerous as the stars in the sky,(F) and you brought them into the land that you told their parents to enter and possess.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:22 One Hebrew manuscript and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts Sihon, that is, the country of the