Deuteronomy 29:4

Complete Jewish Bible

I led you forty years in the desert. Neither the clothes on your body nor the shoes on your feet wore out.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

Hebrew Names Version
but the LORD has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

King James Version
Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

Lexham English Bible
But Yahweh has not given to you a heart to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear, even to this day.

English Standard Version
But to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to understand or eyes to see or ears to hear.

New Century Version
But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind that understands; you don't really understand what you see with your eyes or hear with your ears.

New English Translation
But to this very day the Lord has not given you an understanding mind, perceptive eyes, or discerning ears!

Amplified Bible
"Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart and mind to understand, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

New American Standard Bible
"Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Yet the Lord hath not giuen you an heart to perceiue, and eyes to see, & eares to heare, vnto this day.

Legacy Standard Bible
Yet to this day Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

Contemporary English Version
He has even told you, "For forty years I, the Lord , led you through the desert, but your clothes and your sandals didn't wear out, and I gave you special food. I did these things so you would realize that I am your God." But the Lord must give you a change of heart before you truly understand what you have seen and heard.

Darby Translation
But Jehovah hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Easy-to-Read Version
But even today, you still don't understand what happened. The Lord has not let you really understand what you saw and heard.

George Lamsa Translation
Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to understand and eyes to see and ears to hear.

Good News Translation
But to this very day he has not let you understand what you have experienced.

Literal Translation
Yet Jehovah has not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And yet vnto this daye hath not the LORDE geuen you an hert that vnderstondeth, eyes that se, & eares that heare.

American Standard Version
but Jehovah hath not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

Bible in Basic English
But even to this day the Lord has not given you a mind open to knowledge, or seeing eyes or hearing ears.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And yet the Lorde hath not geuen you an heart to perceaue, and eyes to see, and eares to heare, vnto this day.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
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.

King James Version (1611)
Yet the Lord hath not giuen you an heart to perceiue, and eyes to see, and eares to heare, vnto this day.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.

English Revised Version
but the LORD hath not given you an heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

Berean Standard Bible
Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord yaf not to you an herte vndurstondynge, and iyen seynge, and eeris that moun here, til in to present dai.

Young's Literal Translation
and Jehovah hath not given to you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, till this day,

Update Bible Version
but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

Webster's Bible Translation
Yet the LORD hath not given you a heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

World English Bible
but Yahweh has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, to this day.

New King James Version
Yet the LORD has not given you a heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear, to this very day.

New Living Translation
But to this day the Lord has not given you minds that understand, nor eyes that see, nor ears that hear!

New Life Bible
Yet to this day the Lord has not given you a heart to know, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.

New Revised Standard
But to this day the Lord has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
yet hath Yahweh not given onto you a heart to know, or eyes to see or ears to hear, - until this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.

Revised Standard Version
but to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a heart to know, nor eyes to see, nor ears to hear.

Contextual Overview

¹ (vii) Then Moshe summoned all Isra'el and said to them, "You saw everything Adonai did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his servants and to all his land; ² the great testings which you saw with your own eyes, and the signs and those great wonders. ³ Nevertheless, to this day Adonai has not given you a heart to understand, eyes to see or ears to hear! ⁴ I led you forty years in the desert. Neither the clothes on your body nor the shoes on your feet wore out. ⁵ You didn't eat bread, and you didn't drink wine or other intoxicating liquor; this was so that you would know that ‘I am Adonai your God.' ⁶ (Maftir) When you arrived at this place, Sichon the king of Heshbon and ‘Og the king of Bashan advanced against us in battle, and we defeated them, ⁷ took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Re'uveni, the Gadi and the M'nashi. ⁸ Therefore, observe the words of this covenant and obey them; so that you can make everything you do prosper. Haftarah Ki Tavo: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 60:1–22 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Ki Tavo: Mattityahu (Matthew) 13:1–23; Luke 21:1–4; Acts 28:17–31; Romans 11:1–15 [In regular years read with Parashah 52, in leap years read separately] "Today you are standing, all of you, before Adonai your God — your heads, your tribes, your leaders and your officers — all the men of Isra'el, along with your little ones, your wives and your foreigners here with you in your camp, from the one who chops your wood to the one who draws your water. The purpose is that you should enter into the covenant of Adonai your God and into his oath which Adonai your God is making with you today, (LY: ii) so that he can establish you today for himself as a people, and so that for you he will be God — as he said to you and as he swore to your ancestors, to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov. "But I am not making this covenant and this oath only with you. Rather, I am making it both with him who is standing here with us today before Adonai our God and also with him who is not here with us today. (LY: iii) For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we came directly through the nations you passed through; and you saw their detestable things and their idols of wood, stone, silver and gold that they had with them. So let there not be among you a man, woman, family or tribe whose heart turns away today from Adonai our God to go and serve the gods of those nations. Let there not be among you a root bearing such bitter poison and wormwood. If there is such a person, when he hears the words of this curse, he will bless himself secretly, saying to himself, ‘I will be all right, even though I will stubbornly keep doing whatever I feel like doing; so that I, although "dry," [sinful,] will be added to the "watered" [righteous].' But Adonai will not forgive him. Rather, the anger and jealousy of Adonai will blaze up against that person. Every curse written in this book will be upon him. Adonai will blot out his name from under heaven. Adonai will single him out from all the tribes of Isra'el to experience what is bad in all the curses of the covenant written in this book of the Torah. "When the next generation, your children who will grow up after you, and the foreigner who arrives from a distant land, see the plagues of that land and the diseases with which Adonai has made it sick, and that the whole land has become burning sulfur and salt, that it isn't being sown or bearing crops or even producing grass — like the overthrow of S'dom, ‘Amora, Admah and Tzvoyim, which Adonai overthrew in his furious anger — then all the nations will ask, ‘Why did Adonai do this to this land? What is the meaning of such frenzied, furious anger?' People will answer, ‘It's because they abandoned the covenant of Adonai , the God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt. They went and served other gods, prostrating themselves before them, gods they had not known and which he had not assigned them. For this reason, the anger of Adonai blazed up against this land and brought upon it every curse written in this book; and Adonai , in anger, fury and incensed with indignation, uprooted them from their land and threw them out into another land — as it is today.' "Things which are hidden belong to Adonai our God. But the things that have been revealed belong to us and our children forever, so that we can observe all the words of this Torah. ⁹ Therefore, observe the words of this covenant and obey them; so that you can make everything you do prosper. Haftarah Ki Tavo: Yesha‘yahu (Isaiah) 60:1–22 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Ki Tavo: Mattityahu (Matthew) 13:1–23; Luke 21:1–4; Acts 28:17–31; Romans 11:1–15 [In regular years read with Parashah 52, in leap years read separately] "Today you are standing, all of you, before Adonai your God — your heads, your tribes, your leaders and your officers — all the men of Isra'el,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Deuteronomy 2:30, Proverbs 20:12, Isaiah 6:9, Isaiah 6:10, Isaiah 63:17, Ezekiel 36:26, Matthew 13:11-15, John 8:43, John 12:38-40, Acts 28:26, Acts 28:27, Romans 11:7-10, 2 Corinthians 3:15, Ephesians 4:18, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12, 2 Timothy 2:25, James 1:13-17

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 20:33 - had not Psalms 106:7 - Our Psalms 141:4 - Incline not Isaiah 29:18 - the deaf Jeremiah 5:21 - O foolish Jeremiah 6:10 - their ear Ezekiel 12:2 - which Daniel 9:13 - that we Matthew 13:13 - General Mark 4:12 - That seeing Mark 8:18 - see Luke 8:10 - that seeing John 3:3 - he cannot John 12:40 - that they Romans 11:8 - eyes 2 Timothy 3:7 - learning

Cross-References

Genesis 11:31
Terach took his son Avram, his son Haran's son Lot, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Avram's wife; and they left Ur of the Kasdim to go to the land of Kena‘an. But when they came to Haran, they stayed there.

Genesis 24:10
(iii) Then the servant took ten of his master's camels and all kinds of gifts from his master, got up and went to Aram-Naharayim, to Nachor's city.

Genesis 27:43
Therefore, my son, listen to me: get up and escape to Lavan my brother in Haran.

Genesis 28:10
So ‘Esav went to Yishma‘el and took, in addition to the wives he already had, Machalat the daughter of Yishma‘el Avraham's son, the sister of N'vayot, to be his wife. Haftarah Tol'dot: Mal'akhi (Malachi) 1:1–2:7 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah Tol'dot: Romans 9:6–16; Messianic Jews (Hebrews) 11:20; 12:14–17 Ya‘akov went out from Be'er-Sheva and traveled toward Haran.

Acts 7:2
and Stephen said: "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! The God of glory appeared to Avraham avinu in Mesopotamia before he lived in Haran

Acts 7:4
So he left the land of the Kasdim and lived in Haran. After his father died, God made him move to this land where you are living now.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive,.... They had some of them seen the above miracles with their bodily eyes, but had not discerned with the eyes of their understanding the power of God displayed in them, the goodness of God to them on whose behalf they were wrought, in order to obtain their deliverance, and the vengeance of God on the Egyptians for detaining them; so Jarchi interprets it of an heart to know the mercies of the Lord, and to cleave unto him:

and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day; to see and observe the gracious dealings of God with them, and to hearken to his voice and obey it: so the understanding heart, the seeing eye, and hearing ear, in things spiritual, are from the Lord, are special gifts of his grace, which he bestows on some, and not on others; see Proverbs 20:12. The Targum of Jonathan is,

"the Word of the Lord did not give you an heart, &c.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ability to understand the things of God is the gift of God (compare 1 Corinthians 2:13-14); yet man is not guiltless if he lacks that ability. The people had it not because they had not felt their want of it, nor asked for it. Compare 2 Corinthians 3:14-15.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Deuteronomy 29:4. The Lord hath not given you a heart, c. — Some critics read this verse interrogatively: And hath not God given you a heart, c.? because they suppose that God could not reprehend them for the non-performance of a duty, when he had neither given them a mind to perceive the obligation of it, nor strength to perform it, had that obligation been known. Though this is strictly just, yet there is no need for the interrogation, as the words only imply that they had not such a heart, &c., not because God had not given them all the means of knowledge, and helps of his grace and Spirit, which were necessary but they had not made a faithful use of their advantages, and therefore they had not that wise, loving, and obedient heart which they otherwise might have had. If they had had such a heart, it would have been God's gift, for he is the author of all good and that they had not such a heart was a proof that they had grieved his Spirit, and abused the grace which he had afforded them to produce that gracious change, the want of which is here deplored. Hence God himself is represented as grieved because they were unchanged and disobedient: "O that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them and with their children for ever!" See Deuteronomy 5:29, and the note there.