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New International Version
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

New Living Translation
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.

English Standard Version
The people of Israel ate the manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land. They ate the manna till they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Berean Standard Bible
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.

King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
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.

NASB 1995
The sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

NASB 1977
And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Amplified Bible
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they reached an inhabited land; they ate the manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Christian Standard Bible
The Israelites ate manna for forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Israelites ate manna for 40 years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

American Standard Version
And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

English Revised Version
And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The Israelites ate manna for 40 years until they came to a place to settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of Canaan.

Good News Translation
The Israelites ate manna for the next forty years, until they reached the land of Canaan, where they settled. (

International Standard Version
The Israelis ate manna for 40 years until they came to a land where they could settle. They ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

NET Bible
Now the Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land that was inhabited; they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

New Heart English Bible
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited: they ate manna, until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

Majority Text Translations

Majority Standard Bible
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.

World English Bible
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.

Literal Translations

Literal Standard Version
And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna [for] forty years, until their coming to the land to be inhabited; they have eaten the manna until their coming to the extremity of the land of Canaan.

Young's Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel have eaten the manna forty years, until their coming in unto the land to be inhabited; the manna they have eaten till their coming in unto the extremity of the land of Canaan.

Smith's Literal Translation
And the sons of Israel ate the manna forty years till they came to a land inhabited: they ate the portion till they came to the extremity of the land of Canaan.

Catholic Translations

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Now the sons of Israel ate manna for forty years, until they arrived in a habitable land. With this food they were nourished, even until they touched the borders of the land of Canaan.

New American Bible
The Israelites ate the manna for forty years, until they came to settled land; they ate the manna until they came to the borders of Canaan.

New Revised Standard Version
The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a habitable land; they ate manna, until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.

Translations from Aramaic

Lamsa Bible
And the children of Israel did eat manna for forty years until they came to an inhabited land; they did eat manna until they reached the border of the land of Canaan.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years until they arrived at an inhabited land. They ate manna until they arrived at the border of the land of Canaan.

OT Translations

JPS Tanakh 1917
And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phoenicia.

Additional Translations ...

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Context

The Sabbath Observed
…34And Aaron placed it in front of the Testimony, to be preserved just as the LORD had commanded Moses.35The 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.36(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)…

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Cross References

Joshua 5:12
And 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.

Nehemiah 9:20-21
You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst. / For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

Deuteronomy 8:3
He humbled you, and in your hunger He gave you manna to eat, which neither you nor your fathers had known, so that you might understand that man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

Psalm 78:24-25
He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven. / Man ate the bread of angels; He sent them food in abundance.

John 6:31-33
Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” / Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I tell you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but it is My Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. / For the bread of God is He who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

Numbers 11:7-9
Now the manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of gum resin. / The people walked around and gathered it, ground it on a handmill or crushed it in a mortar, then boiled it in a cooking pot or shaped it into cakes. It tasted like pastry baked with fine oil. / When the dew fell on the camp at night, the manna would fall with it.

Deuteronomy 29:5
For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

1 Corinthians 10:3-4
They all ate the same spiritual food / and drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.

Psalm 105:40
They asked, and He brought quail and satisfied them with the bread of heaven.

John 6:49-51
Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. / This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that anyone may eat of it and not die. / I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And this bread, which I will give for the life of the world, is My flesh.”

Deuteronomy 8:16
He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

Revelation 2:17
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.

Numbers 14:33-34
Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness. / In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

Hebrews 9:4
containing the golden altar of incense and the gold-covered ark of the covenant. Inside the ark were the gold jar of manna, Aaron’s staff that had budded, and the stone tablets of the covenant.

Nehemiah 9:15
In 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 that You had sworn to give them.

Treasury of Scripture

And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.

forty years

Numbers 33:38
And 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 firstday of the fifth month.

Deuteronomy 8:2,3
And 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 whatwas in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no…

Nehemiah 9:15,20,21
And 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…

until they come to

Joshua 5:12
And 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.

the borders

Numbers 33:48-50
And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordannear Jericho…

Deuteronomy 1:8
Behold, 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.

Deuteronomy 34:1-4
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, thatis over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, …

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Exodus 16

1.The Israelites come to Sin, and murmur for want of bread
4.God promises them bread and meat from heaven, and they are rebuked
13.Quail and manna are sent
16.The ordering of manna
25.It was not to be found on the Sabbath
32.An omer of it is preserved

Study Bible

Book ◦ Chapter

The Israelites ate manna forty years
The provision of manna was a miraculous event that sustained the Israelites during their wilderness journey. This period of forty years represents a time of testing and reliance on God's provision. The number forty is significant in the Bible, often associated with periods of trial and preparation, such as the forty days of rain during the flood (Genesis 7:12) and Jesus' forty days of fasting in the wilderness (Matthew 4:2). Manna symbolizes God's faithfulness and the necessity of spiritual sustenance, foreshadowing Jesus as the "bread of life" (John 6:31-35).

until they came to a land where they could settle
This phrase indicates the transition from a nomadic lifestyle to settling in the Promised Land. The land where they could settle refers to Canaan, a land promised to Abraham and his descendants (Genesis 12:7). This transition marks the fulfillment of God's promise and the end of their dependence on manna, as they would now rely on the produce of the land. It signifies a new chapter in Israel's history, moving from divine provision in the wilderness to a life of abundance in the land flowing with milk and honey (Exodus 3:8).

they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan
The cessation of manna at the border of Canaan underscores the completion of God's promise to bring the Israelites to the Promised Land. This event is recorded inJoshua 5:12, where the manna stopped the day after they ate the produce of the land. The border of Canaan represents the threshold of a new beginning, where the Israelites would transition from a miraculous provision to a natural one, relying on the land's resources. This shift also highlights the importance of faith and obedience as they prepared to conquer and inhabit the land God had given them.

Persons / Places / Events

1.The Israelites
The chosen people of God, descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who were delivered from slavery in Egypt and were journeying to the Promised Land.

2.Manna
A miraculous food provided by God to sustain the Israelites during their 40-year journey in the wilderness. The term "manna" comes from the Hebrew word (man), which means "What is it?" as the Israelites initially did not know what it was.

3.Forty Years
The period during which the Israelites wandered in the wilderness due to their disobedience and lack of faith, as a generation passed away before entering the Promised Land.

4.The Wilderness
The desert region where the Israelites traveled after leaving Egypt, characterized by its harsh conditions and lack of natural resources.

5.Canaan
The land promised by God to the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, representing a place of rest and fulfillment of God's promises.

Teaching Points

God's Provision
God is faithful to provide for His people, even in the most challenging circumstances. Just as He provided manna daily, He meets our needs according to His riches in glory.

Dependence on God
The Israelites' reliance on manna teaches us to depend on God for our daily needs and spiritual nourishment. We are reminded to seek His kingdom first, trusting that He will provide.

Obedience and Faith
The 40-year journey underscores the importance of obedience and faith in God's promises. Disobedience can delay the fulfillment of God's plans in our lives.

Spiritual Sustenance
Just as manna sustained the Israelites physically, Jesus, the bread of life, sustains us spiritually. We are called to feed on His word and presence daily.

Journey to the Promised Land
Our Christian walk is a journey toward the ultimate Promised Land—eternal life with God. We are encouraged to persevere in faith, trusting in God's guidance and provision.

Bible Study Questions and Answers

1.What is the meaning of Exodus 16:35?

2.How does Exodus 16:35 demonstrate God's provision during the Israelites' wilderness journey?

3.What lessons on reliance can we learn from Israel's 40-year manna experience?

4.How does Exodus 16:35 connect to Jesus as the "bread of life"?

5.In what ways can we trust God for daily provision in our lives?

6.How does God's faithfulness in Exodus 16:35 encourage perseverance in challenging times?

7.How did God provide manna for 40 years according to Exodus 16:35?

8.What does Exodus 16:35 reveal about God's provision and faithfulness?

9.Is there archaeological evidence supporting the Israelites' 40-year journey in the desert?

10.What are the top 10 Lessons from Exodus 16?

11.How could millions of people survive on a single type of food in the desert for forty years without other recorded health or logistical issues (Exodus 16:35)?

12.Joshua 5:10–12: How plausible is it that the manna stopped immediately once the Israelites ate the produce of the land, with no transition period?

13.How does the detailed description of manna’s properties (Exodus 16:14–21) align or conflict with accounts of other supernatural provisions in the Bible?

14.How do we explain the absence of archaeological traces of the Israelites’ forty-year wilderness journey before receiving the law in Exodus 20?

What Does Exodus 16:35 Mean

The Israelites ate manna forty years

“Now the Israelites ate manna forty years” (Exodus 16:35a).

- Forty years marks the entire span of the wilderness journey, from the Red Sea all the way to Canaan (Numbers 14:33-34;Deuteronomy 29:5).

- God’s daily provision was consistent and miraculous. Every morning—except the Sabbath—the flaky, sweet bread lay on the ground (Exodus 16:14-21).

- The period also corresponds to a generation, underlining how completely the Lord sustained His people (Deuteronomy 8:2-3).

- Nothing about manna was symbolic only; it was literal food that kept roughly two million people alive. Its taste and appearance are detailed (Exodus 16:31;Numbers 11:7-9), inviting us to trust the straightforward biblical record.

until they came to a land where they could settle

“until they came to a land where they could settle” (Exodus 16:35b).

- God never designed the wilderness as a permanent home; the goal was the land sworn to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Genesis 12:7; 26:3; 28:13).

- “A land flowing with milk and honey” promised rest, security, and harvests they did not plant (Exodus 3:17;Deuteronomy 6:10-11).

- Manna served as a visible guarantee: if the Lord could feed them in a barren desert, He could certainly establish them in a fruitful land (Deuteronomy 1:21;Psalm 78:24-25).

- The detail that manna lasted “until” they could settle shows God times His gifts perfectly. He provides what we need exactly as long as we need it—no more, no less.

they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan

“they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan” (Exodus 16:35c).

- The precise endpoint is recorded again when Israel crossed the Jordan: “The manna ceased the day after they had eaten of the produce of the land” (Joshua 5:12).

- Standing on Canaan’s threshold, they tasted roasted grain from Jericho’s fields (Joshua 5:11). That first bite of local food signaled a new chapter of normal provision.

- God’s faithfulness did not stop; it simply changed form—from daily miracles to seasonal harvests. His care is steady, though the methods vary (Psalm 37:25;Matthew 6:31-33).

- The border language hints at inheritance. What was once promise became possession (Joshua 21:43-45). Manna’s cessation celebrated promise fulfilled.

summary

Exodus 16:35 records a literal, forty-year miracle that ended exactly when Israel stepped onto Canaan’s soil. Manna showcased God’s unfailing care, bridged the gap between slavery and settlement, and proved that every promise—whether wilderness bread or Promised Land abundance—can be trusted without reservation.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(35)The children of Israel did eat manna forty years.--Moses may have added this verse to the present chapter shortly before his death, when the manna had continued for thirty-nine years and nine months. He does not say that it had ceased to be given. We know that in fact it did not cease till the Jordan was crossed by the Israelites under Joshua, and Canaan was actually reached (Joshua 5:10-12).

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 35. -The children of Israel did eat manna forty years. Kalisch observes that the actual time was not forty full years, but about one month short of that period, since the manna began after the fifteenth day of the second month of the first year (verse 1) and terminated just after Passover of the forty-first year (Joshua 5:10-12). It may be added that Mesas cannot have written the present passage later than about the eleventh month of the fortieth year (Deuteronomy 1:3;Deuteronomy 34:10;Joshua 4:19); when the manna had continued thirty-nine years and nine months.Until they came to a land inhabited. Kalisch translates "the land of their habitation," or "which they were to inhabit," remarking that they had reached inhabited countries,e.g., those of Sihon and Og, much earlier. But the words will not bear this rendering. What the writer intends to note is, that the manna continued all the time they were in the wilderness, until they reached inhabited territory, and then further (in the next clause), that it lasted after that, until they came to the borders of Canaan. He does not say that it even then left off. He writes exactly as Moses might be expected to have written towards the close of his life. A later writer would, as Canon Cook observes, have been more specific.

Parallel Commentaries ...

Hebrew

The Israelites
וּבְנֵ֣י(ū·ḇə·nê)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121:A son

ate
אָֽכְל֤וּ(’ā·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 398:To eat

manna
הַמָּן֙(ham·mān)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4478:Manna (a kind of bread)

forty
אַרְבָּעִ֣ים(’ar·bā·‘îm)
Number - common plural
Strong's 705:Forty

years,
שָׁנָ֔ה(šā·nāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8141:A year

until
עַד־(‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704:As far as, even to, up to, until, while

they came
בֹּאָ֖ם(bō·’ām)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 935:To come in, come, go in, go

to
אֶל־(’el-)
Preposition
Strong's 413:Near, with, among, to

a land
אֶ֣רֶץ(’e·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776:Earth, land

where they could settle;
נוֹשָׁ֑בֶת(nō·wō·šā·ḇeṯ)
Verb - Nifal - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 3427:To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

they ate
אָֽכְל֔וּ(’ā·ḵə·lū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 398:To eat

manna
הַמָּן֙(ham·mān)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4478:Manna (a kind of bread)

until
עַד־(‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's 5704:As far as, even to, up to, until, while

they reached
בֹּאָ֕ם(bō·’ām)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 935:To come in, come, go in, go

the border
קְצֵ֖ה(qə·ṣêh)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7097:End, extremity

of Canaan.
כְּנָֽעַן׃(kə·nā·‘an)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3667:Canaan -- a son of Ham, also his descendants and their land West of the Jordan

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