forty years

Numbers 33:38
At the LORD's command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of the land of Egypt.

Deuteronomy 8:2, 3
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. . . .

Nehemiah 9:15, 20, 21
In their hunger You provided bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land which You had sworn to give them. . . .

Psalm 78:24, 25
He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven. . . .

John 6:30-58
So they asked Him, "What sign then will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do? . . .

until they come to

Joshua 5:12
And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.

the borders

Numbers 33:48-50
They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho. . . .

Deuteronomy 1:8
See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them."

Deuteronomy 34:1-4
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land--from Gilead as far as Dan, . . .