Deuteronomy 29:6
in Deuteronomy 29You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.
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ASV
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink; that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.
KJV
Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong drink: that ye might know that I am the Lord your God.
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This verse in Deuteronomy 29
Commentary
5 notes on this verseYe have not eaten bread - Common bread purchased by your own money, or made by your own hands, but heavenly and angelical bread. Neither drank wine - But only water out of the rock. The Lord - Omnipotent and all-sufficient for your provision without the help of any creatures, and your God in covenant with you who hath a true affection to you, and fatherly care of you.
This site's exposition
I have led you forty years
on Deuteronomy 29:5-6
The clothes that did not wear out and the shoe that did not wear out were said already at 8:4, and Nehemiah 9:21 recites them again inside a prayer of confession. Verse 6 states the other half of the same provision, no bread and no wine or strong drink for forty years, which leaves manna and water from the rock as the whole diet. The purpose given is knowledge, that ye might know that I am the Lord your God, so the point of the shortage was who supplied it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
11 ), never wore out, but served them to Canaan: and though they lived not upon bread which strengthens the heart, and wine which rejoices it, but upon manna and rock-water, yet they were men of strength and courage, mighty men, and able to go forth to war. By these miracles they were made to know that the Lord was God, and by these mercies that he was their God.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
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 2Co 6:1.
The words behind it
13 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לֶ֚חֶם | lechem | bread | H3899 → | 298 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אֲכַלְתֶּ֔ם | ʾakhaltem | you ate | H398 → | 810 times |
| וְיַ֥יִן | veyayin | and wine | H3196 → | 141 times |
| וְשֵׁכָ֖ר | veshekhar | and strong drink | H7941 → | |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| שְׁתִיתֶ֑ם | shetitem | you drank | H8354 → | 217 times |
| לְמַ֙עַן֙ | lemaan | so that | H4616 → | 272 times |
| תֵּֽדְע֔וּ | tedeu | you may know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| כִּ֛י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אֲנִ֥י | ʾani | I | H589 → | 874 times |
| יְהוָ֖ה | yahweh | [am] Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ | ʾeloheikhem | God your | H430 → | 2601 times |
לֶ֚חֶםbread
lechemH3899 →298 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
אֲכַלְתֶּ֔םyou ate
ʾakhaltemH398 →810 times
וְיַ֥יִןand wine
veyayinH3196 →141 times
וְשֵׁכָ֖רand strong drink
veshekharH7941 →
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
שְׁתִיתֶ֑םyou drank
shetitemH8354 →217 times
לְמַ֙עַן֙so that
lemaanH4616 →272 times
תֵּֽדְע֔וּyou may know
tedeuH3045 →945 times
כִּ֛יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
אֲנִ֥יI
ʾaniH589 →874 times
יְהוָ֖ה[am] Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃God your
ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Deuteronomy 8:3He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone,…
it leads to
- Matthew 4:4
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
- Luke 4:4
But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone.’”
- Matthew 4:4
Through
1 Corinthians 10:4and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.
it leads to
- Exodus 17:6
Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in…
- John 7:37
On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
- Exodus 17:6
Through
Ephesians 5:18Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to reckless indiscretion. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
it leads to
- Luke 1:15
for he will be great in the sight of the Lord. He shall never take wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even from his mother’s womb.
- Proverbs 20:1
Wine is a mocker, strong drink is a brawler, and whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
- Romans 13:13
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- Galatians 5:21–25
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
- Luke 1:15
Where this verse is studied
About Deuteronomy

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.
