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Neh 9:21 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

forty		Exd 16:35; Num 14:33,34; Deu 2:7; Deu 8:2; Amo 5:25; Act 13:18
their		Deu 8:4; Deu 29:5; Psa 34:10

Correlating Passages

forty

	Exd 16:35	And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
	Num 14:33	And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness.
	Num 14:34	After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, [even] forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, [even] forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
	Deu 2:7	For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God [hath been] with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
	Deu 8:2	And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, [and] to prove thee, to know what [was] in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
	Amo 5:25	Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
	Act 13:18	And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

their

	Deu 8:4	Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.
	Deu 29:5	And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
	Psa 34:10	The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good [thing].

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