Exodus 16:35

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“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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BSBPD

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“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.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“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.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 16:35 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Numbers 32:13The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.
  2. Numbers 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.
  3. Numbers 33:48They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
  4. Deuteronomy 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.”
  5. Deuteronomy 2:7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.
  6. Deuteronomy 8:2Remember 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.
  7. Deuteronomy 8:4Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.
  8. Deuteronomy 29:4Yet to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, eyes to see, or ears to hear.
  9. Deuteronomy 34:1Then 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,
  10. Joshua 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.
  11. Nehemiah 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.
  12. Nehemiah 9:20You gave Your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold Your manna from their mouths, and You gave them water for their thirst.
  13. Psalms 78:24He rained down manna for them to eat; He gave them grain from heaven.
  14. John 6:30So they asked Him, “What sign then will You perform, so that we may see it and believe You? What will You do?

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