Exodus 16:35

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.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
children	וּבְנֵ֣י u.ve.Nei	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural construct
Israel	יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל Yis.ra.'El	H3478	Jisrael · proper noun, a place name
eat	אָֽכְל֤וּ 'a.khe.Lu	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
manna	הַמָּן֙ ha.Man	H4478	literally a whatness (so to speak) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
forty	אַרְבָּעִ֣ים 'ar.ba.'Im	H705	forty · cardinal number, masculine plural absolute
years	שָׁנָ֔ה sha.Nah	H8141	a year (as a revolution of time) · noun, common feminine singular absolute
came	בֹּאָ֖ם bo.'Am	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
land	אֶ֣רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular absolute
inhabited	נוֹשָׁ֑בֶת no.Sha.vet	H3427	properly · verb, niphal active participle, feminine singular absolute
eat	אָֽכְל֔וּ 'a.khe.Lu	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
manna	הַמָּן֙ ha.Man	H4478	literally a whatness (so to speak) · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
came	בֹּאָ֕ם bo.'Am	H935	to go or come (in a wide variety of applications) · verb, qal infinitive construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine plural
borders	קְצֵ֖ה ke.Tzeh	H7097	an extremity · noun, common masculine singular construct
land	אֶ֥רֶץ 'E.retz	H776	the earth (at large · noun, common feminine singular construct
Canaan	כְּנָֽעַן ke.Na.'an	H3667	Kenaan · proper noun, a place name

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Cross-references

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…
Nehemiah 9:20-21 Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst.
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,…
John 6:30-58 They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work?
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 Israe…
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 giv…
Psalms 78:24-25 And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven.
Numbers 33:48-50 And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:32–end

God having provided manna to be his people's food in the wilderness, and to be to them a continual feast, we are here told, 1. How the memory of it was preserved. An omer of this manna was laid up in a golden pot, as we are told (Heb 9:4), and kept before the testimony, or the ark, when it was afterwards made, Exo 16:32-34. The preservation of this manna from waste and corruption was a standing miracle, and therefore the more proper memorial of this miraculous food. "Posterity shall see the bread," says God, "wherewith I have fed you in the wilderness," see what sort of food it was, and how much each man's daily proportion of it was, that it may appear they were neither kept to hard fare nor…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:32

Fill an omer of it to be kept for your generations--The mere fact of such a multitude being fed for forty years in the wilderness, where no food of any kind is to be obtained, will show the utter impossibility of their subsisting on a natural production of the kind and quantity as this tarfa-gum [see on Exo 16:13]; and, as if for the purpose of removing all such groundless speculations, Aaron was commanded to put a sample of it in a pot--a golden pot (Heb 9:4) --to be laid before the Testimony, to be kept for future generations, that they might see the bread on which the Lord fed their fathers in the wilderness. But we have the bread of which that was merely typical (Co1 10:3; Joh 6:32).…

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Adam Clarke on Exodus 16:35

The children of Israel did eat manna forty years - From this verse it has been supposed that the book of Exodus was not written till after the miracle of the manna had ceased. But these words might have been added by Ezra, who under the direction of the Divine Spirit collected and digested the different inspired books, adding such supplementary, explanatory, and connecting sentences, as were deemed proper to complete and arrange the whole of the sacred canon. For previously to his time, according to the universal testimony of the Jews, all the books of the Old Testament were found in an unconnected and dispersed state.

The Church Fathers

Let us also see if we are able to find Quadragesima's mystical number somewhere else in the Scriptures. We read that holy Moses fed the children of Israel with heavenly manna in the desert for the space of forty years. Good is the number, then, which always opens heaven. Good is the number, I say, by which Noah's righteousness is preserved and the children of Israel are fed. For this reason let us also observe this number so that the heavens might be opened to us in order that the rain of spiritual grace might fall upon us and the manna of the spiritual sacraments refresh us. For, after the fashion of our fathers, by this observance of Quadragesima we are both made righteous and nourished: we are made righteous by the washing [of baptism] and nourished by the sacraments [of bread and wine].
— Maximus of Turin, SERMON 50.3

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Dictionary and topics

Exodus — The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about…
Manna — Heb. man-hu, “What is that?” the name given by the Israelites to the food miraculously supplied to them during their wanderings in the wilderness (Ex. 16:15-35). The name is commonly taken as derived…
Weights And Measures — A. WEIGHTS.—The general principle of the present inquiry is to give the evidence of the monuments the preference on all doubtful points. All ancient Greek systems of weight were derived, either…
Desert, Journey Of Israel Through The · With miraculous provision — With miraculous provision
Forty · .Wan — .Wan
Manna · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Exodus 16:35

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:32–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:32

Adam Clarke on Exodus 16:35

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 16:35

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 16:32–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 16:32

Adam Clarke on Exodus 16:35

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Gill on Exodus 16:35

John Calvin on Exodus 16:31–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 16:32-35

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 16:35

Rashi on Exodus 16:35