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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.

22 (A)“You let them conquer nations and kingdoms,
    lands that bordered their own.
They conquered the land of Heshbon, where Sihon ruled,
    and the land of Bashan, where Og was king.
23 (B)You gave them as many children as there are stars in the sky,
    and let them conquer and live in the land
    that you had promised their ancestors to give them.

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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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Footnotes

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