Exodus 16:35
And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; the manna they did eat, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
34As the Lord had commanded Moses, so did Aaron lay it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
36But the omer is a tenth part of an ephah.
Cross References
Numbers 32:13And the anger of the Lord was thus kindled against Israel, and he made them wander about in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation was spent, that had done the evil in the eyes of the Lord.
Numbers 33:48And they removed from the mountains of 'Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
Deuteronomy 2:7For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand; he hath provided for thy wandering through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
Deuteronomy 8:4Thy garment did not fall worn out from thee, and thy foot did not swell, these forty years.
Deuteronomy 34:1And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mount of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is before Jericho; and the Lord showed him all the land [from] Gil'ad unto Dan,
Nehemiah 9:15And bread from heaven didst thou give them for their hunger, and water out of the rock broughtest thou forth for them for their thirst; and thou didst order them to go in to take possession of the land concerning which thou hadst lifted up thy hand to give it unto 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 →