Deuteronomy 29 · Verse 6

Deuteronomy 29:6

Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 29:6, King James Version

Deuteronomy 29:6 in other translations

BSBYou ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
WEBYou have not eaten bread, neither have you drunk wine or strong drink, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.
ASVYe have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.
YLTbread ye have not eaten, and wine and strong drink ye have not drunk, so that ye know that I am Jehovah your God.
DARBYye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink, that ye might know that I am Jehovah your God.
BBEYou have had no bread, or wine, or strong drink: so that you might see that I am the Lord your God.
WebsterYe have not eaten bread, neither have ye drank wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.

What does Deuteronomy 29:6 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 6 Ye have not eaten bread, etc. - That is, ye have not been supported in an ordinary providential way; I have been continually working miracles for you, that ye might know that I am the Lord. Thus we find that God had furnished them with all the means of this knowledge, and that the means were ineffectual, not because they were not properly calculated to answer God's gracious purpose, but because the people were not workers with God; consequently they received the grace of God in vain. See 2Cor 6:1.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 29:1-9

Both former mercies, and fresh mercies, should be thought on by us as motives to obedience. The hearing ear, and seeing eye, and the understanding heart, are the gift of God. All that have them, have them from him. God gives not only food and raiment, but wealth and large possessions, to many to whom he does not give grace. Many enjoy the gifts, who have not hearts to perceive the Giver, nor the true design and use…

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Deuteronomy 29:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לֶ֚חֶםLe.chembreadH3899
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
אֲכַלְתֶּ֔ם'a.khal.Temyou ateH398
וְיַ֥יִןve.Ya.yinand wineH3196
וְשֵׁכָ֖רve.she.Kharand strong drinkH7941
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
שְׁתִיתֶ֑םshe.ti.Temyou drankH8354
לְמַ֙עַן֙le.Ma.'anso thatH4616
תֵּֽדְע֔וּte.de.'Uyou may knowH3045
כִּ֛יkithatH3588
אֲנִ֥י'a.NiIH589
יְהוָ֖הYah.weh[am] YahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם\׃'e.lo.hei.KhemGod yourH430

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Deuteronomy 29:6

  • Deuteronomy 8:3

    And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

  • Ephesians 5:18

    And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

  • Nehemiah 9:15

    And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

  • Exodus 16:12

    I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.

  • 1 Corinthians 10:4

    And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

  • Numbers 20:8

    Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

  • Psalms 78:24-25

    And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.

  • 1 Corinthians 9:25

    And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

  • Exodus 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.

  • Numbers 16:14

    Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
eaten bread.
8:3; Ex 16:12,35; Ne 9:15; Ps 78:24,25
neither have.
Nu 16:14; 20:8; 1Co 9:25; 10:4; Eph 5:18

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Context

  • Deuteronomy 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.

  • Deuteronomy 29:6

    Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.

  • Deuteronomy 29:7

    And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

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Deuteronomy 29:6 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
No habéis comido pan, ni bebisteis vino ni sidra: para que supieseis que yo soy Jehová vuestro Dios.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et vous êtes parvenus en ce lieu-ci; et Sihon, roi de Hesbon, et Og, le roi de Basan, sortirent à notre rencontre pour nous livrer bataille, et nous les avons battus;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Brot habt ihr nicht gegessen, und Wein und starkes Getränk habt ihr nicht getrunken; auf daß ihr erkänntet, daß ich Jehova, euer Gott, bin.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Panem non comedistis, vinum et siceram non bibistis: ut sciretis quia ego sum Dominus Deus vester.