Exodus 16:35 “The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where…”

Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

World English Bible

The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

American Standard Version

And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

Geneva Bible 1599

And the children of Israel did eate MAN fourtie yeres, vntill they came vnto a land inhabited: they did eate MAN vntill they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

Darby Translation

And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came into an inhabited land: they ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

Young's Literal Translation

And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna forty years, until their coming in unto the land to be inhabited; the manna they have eaten till their coming in unto the extremity of the land of Canaan.

Bible in Basic English

And the children of Israel had manna for their food for forty years, till they came to a land with people in it, till they came to the edge of the land of Canaan.

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Cross references

“forty years”

John 6:30–58 Numbers 33:38 Nehemiah 9:15 Deuteronomy 8:2 Deuteronomy 8:3 Nehemiah 9:20

John 6:30–58 · BSB

So they asked Him, “What sign then will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do?

Numbers 33:38 · BSB

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 had come out of the land of Egypt.

Nehemiah 9:15 · BSB

In their hunger You gave them bread from heaven; in their thirst You brought them water from the rock. You told them to go in and possess the land that You had sworn to give them.

Deuteronomy 8:2 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 8:3 · BSB

He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth o…

Nehemiah 9:20 · BSB

You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.

“until they come to”

Joshua 5:12

Joshua 5:12 · BSB

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”

Deuteronomy 1:8 Numbers 33:48–50 Deuteronomy 34:1–4

Deuteronomy 1:8 · BSB

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.”

Numbers 33:48–50 · BSB

They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Deuteronomy 34:1–4 · BSB

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,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

34And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

36(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)

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