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.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- BSB 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.
- 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 manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
- Neh 9:20–21Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
- John 6:30–58They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
- Deut 8:2–3And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
- Deut 1:8Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.
- Num 33:38And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
- Ps 78:24–25And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
- Deut 34:1–4And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
- Neh 9:15And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.
- Num 33:48–50And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near 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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