You must be certain to tithe all the produce of your seed that comes from the field year after year.

Your clothing did not wear out nor did your feet swell all these forty years.

You and your household must eat them annually before the Lord your God in the place he chooses.

Moses was 120 years old when he died, but his eye was not dull nor had his vitality departed.

a land the Lord your God looks after. He is constantly attentive to it from the beginning to the end of the year.

I have led you through the desert for forty years. Your clothing has not worn out nor have your sandals deteriorated.

However, it was not until the first day of the eleventh month of the fortieth year that Moses addressed the Israelites just as the Lord had instructed him to do.

All along the way I, the Lord your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

Remember the whole way by which he has brought you these forty years through the desert so that he might, by humbling you, test you to see if you have it within you to keep his commandments or not.

When a man is newly married, he need not go into the army nor be obligated in any way; he must be free to stay at home for a full year and bring joy to the wife he has married.

He said to them, “Today I am a hundred and twenty years old. I am no longer able to get about, and the Lord has said to me, ‘You will not cross the Jordan.’