Exodus 16:35
Good News Translation
The Israelites ate manna for the next forty years, until they reached the land of Canaan, where they settled. (

New Revised Standard Version
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a habitable land; they ate manna, until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

New American Bible
The Israelites ate the manna for forty years, until they came to settled land; they ate the manna until they came to the borders of Canaan.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.

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And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.

forty years

Numbers 33:38 And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord: and there he died in the fortieth year of the coming forth of the children of Israel out of Egypt, the fifth month, the first day of the month,

Deuteronomy 8:2,3 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. . . .

Nehemiah 9:15,20,21 And thou gavest them bread from heaven in their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock in their thirst, and thou saidst to them that they should go in, and possess the land, upon which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it them. . . .

Psalm 78:24,25 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them the bread of heaven. . . .

John 6:30-58 They said therefore to him: What sign therefore dost thou shew that we may see and may believe thee? What dost thou work? . . .

until they come to

Joshua 5:12 And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land, neither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate of the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.

the borders

Numbers 33:48-50 And departing from the mountains of Abarim, they passed to the plains of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho. . . .

Deuteronomy 1:8 Behold, said he, I have delivered it to you: go in and possess it, concerning which the Lord swore to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that he would give it to them, and to their seed after them.

Deuteronomy 34:1-4 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab upon mount Nebo, to the top of Phasga over against Jericho: and the Lord shewed him all the land of Galaad as far as Dan. . . .

Context
The Sabbath Observed
34As the Lord commanded Moses. And Aaron put it in the tabernacle to be kept. 35And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.36Now a gomor is the tenth part of an ephi.…
Cross References
Acts 7:36
He brought them out, doing wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the desert, forty years.

1 Corinthians 10:3
And did all eat the same spiritual food:

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.

Joshua 5:12
And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the land, neither did the children of Israel use that food any more, but they ate of the corn of the present year of the land of Chanaan.

Nehemiah 9:20
And thou gavest them thy good Spirit to teach them, and thy manna thou didst not withhold from their mouth, and thou gavest them water for their thirst.

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.

Exodus 16:34
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