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.
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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.
- 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.
- 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 5:12The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. The children of Israel didn’t have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
- Neh 9:20–21You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst.
- John 6:30–58They said therefore to him, “What then do you do for a sign, that we may see, and believe you? What work do you do?
- Deut 8:2–3You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
- Deut 1:8Behold, I have set the land before you. Go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’”
- Num 33:38Aaron the priest went up into Mount Hor at the commandment of Yahweh, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
- Ps 78:24–25He rained down manna on them to eat, and gave them food from the sky.
- Deut 34:1–4Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan,
- Neh 9:15and gave them bread from the sky for their hunger, and brought water out of the rock for them for their thirst, and commanded them that they should go in to possess the land which you had sworn to give them.
- Num 33:48–50They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at 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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