Exodus 16:35

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.

Bible in Basic English

In The 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.

In Context

34So Aaron put it away in front of the holy chest to be kept, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

36Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:13Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

Numbers 33:48And they went on from the mountains of Abarim, and put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho;

Deuteronomy 2:7For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

Deuteronomy 8:4Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.

Deuteronomy 34:1And Moses went up from the table-lands of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah which is facing Jericho. And the Lord let him see all the land, the land of Gilead as far as Dan;

Nehemiah 9:15And you gave them bread from heaven when they were in need, and made water come out of the rock for their drink, and gave them orders to go in and take for their heritage the land which your hand had been lifted up to give them.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:33-36

A Pot of Manna Preserved. ( b. c. 1491.) 32 And Moses said, This is the thing which the Lord commandeth, Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations; that they may see the bread wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt. 33 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord , to be kept for your generations. 34 As the Lord commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept. 35 And… Read the whole commentary →

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