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Nehemiah 9:20–21

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20*In your goodness you told them what they should do;

you fed them with manna and gave them water to drink.

21*Through forty years in the desert

you provided all that they needed;

their clothing never wore out,

and their feet were not swollen with pain.

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Nehemiah 9:20: You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst.

Cross references

  1. *9.19–21: Dt 8:2–4
  2. *9.19–21: Dt 8:2–4

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

You gave your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths, and you gave them water for their thirst. For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness; they lacked nothing, their clothes did not wear out nor did their feet become swollen.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

You sent your good Spirit to instruct them.

You did not withhold your manna from their mouths,

and you gave them water for their thirst.

You provided for them in the wilderness forty years,

and they lacked nothing.

Their clothes did not wear out,

and their feet did not swell.

NLTNew Living Translation

You sent your good Spirit to instruct them, and you did not stop giving them manna from heaven or water for their thirst. For forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out, and their feet did not swell!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And you gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. Forty years you sustained them in the desert—they were not in need. Their clothing did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

KJV 1900King James Version

Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. 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.