Deuteronomy 29:5
Good News Translation
For forty years the LORD led you through the desert, and your clothes and sandals never wore out.

New Revised Standard Version
I have led you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out;

New American Bible
I led you for forty years in the wilderness. Your clothes did not fall from you in tatters nor your sandals from your feet;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.

I have led

Deuteronomy 1:3 In the fortieth year, the eleventh month, the first day of the month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him to say to them:

Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way through which the Lord thy God hath brought thee for forty years through the desert, to afflict thee and to prove thee, and that the things that were known in thy heart might be made known, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments or no.

your clothes

Deuteronomy 8:4 Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not decayed for age, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year,

Nehemiah 9:21 Forty years didst thou feed them in the desert, and nothing was wanting to them: their garments did not grow old, and their feet were not worn.

Matthew 6:31,32 Be not solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed? . . .

and thy shoe

Joshua 9:5,13 And very old shoes, which for a show of age were clouted with patches, and old garments upon them: the loaves also, which they carried for provisions by the way, were hard, and broken into pieces: . . .

Matthew 10:10 Nor scrip for your journey, nor two coats, nor shoes, nor a staff; for the workman is worthy of his meat.

Context
The Covenant in Moab
4And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day. 5He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.6You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.…
Cross References
Exodus 7:7
And Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharao.

Numbers 14:33
Your children shall wander in the desert forty years, and shall bear your fornication, until the carcasses of their fathers be consumed in the desert,

Deuteronomy 8:4
Thy raiment, with which thou wast covered, hath not decayed for age, and thy foot is not worn, lo this is the fortieth year,

Deuteronomy 29:4
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