John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:5
And I have led you forty years in the wilderness ,.... From the time of their coming out of Egypt unto that day, which though not quite complete, is given as a round number. Eupolemus F4 Apud Euseb. Praepar. Evangel. l. 9. c. 30. p. 447. , an Heathen writer, confirms this date of the ministry of Moses among the Israelites; he says, Moses performed the office of a prophet forty years: your clothes are not waxen old upon you : were not worn out; all those forty years they had been in... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Deuteronomy 29:1-9
Now that Moses had largely repeated the commands which the people were to observe as their part of the covenant, and the promises and threatenings which God would make good (according as they behaved themselves) as part of the covenant, the whole is here summed up in a federal transaction. The covenant formerly made is here renewed, and Moses, who was before, is still, the mediator of it (Deut. 29:1): The Lord commanded Moses to make it. Moses himself, though king in Jeshurun, could not make... read more