Then we left Horeb and passed through all that immense, forbidding wilderness that you saw on the way to the Amorite hill country as the Lord our God had commanded us to do, finally arriving at Kadesh Barnea.

However, through all this you did not have confidence in the Lord your God,

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.'"

"Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

Sell me food for cash so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. Just allow me to go through on foot,

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.

and who brought you through the great, fearful desert of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and

you shall take an awl and pierce a hole through his ear to the door. Then he will become your servant permanently (this applies to your female servant as well).

You must not seek peace and prosperity for them through all the ages to come.

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

"(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the sky to help you, on the clouds in majesty.