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.
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- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- NKJV And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
- NASB And the sons of Israel ate the manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
- NLT So the people of Israel ate manna for forty years until they arrived at the land where they would settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
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Quick answer
Israel ate manna for forty years until they reached the borders of Canaan. God faithfully sustained his people throughout the entire wilderness journey.
Overview
The summary statement, looking ahead across the whole wilderness era, testifies to God's unbroken faithfulness in daily provision. Manna ceased only when Israel could eat the produce of the promised land (Josh. 5:12). This long sustaining grace displays God's covenant care and foreshadows Christ, who feeds his people until they reach their true rest.
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- Josh 5:12And 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.
- Neh 9:20–21You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
- John 6:30–58So they asked Him, “What sign then will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do?
- Deut 8:2–3Remember 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.
- Deut 1:8See, 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.”
- Num 33:38At 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.
- Ps 78:24–25He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
- Deut 34:1–4Then 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,
- Neh 9:15In 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 which You had sworn to give them.
- Num 33:48–50They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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