Exodus 16:35

35 En de kinderen Israels aten Man veertig jaren, totdat zij in een bewoond land kwamen; zij aten Man, totdat zij kwamen aan de pale van het land Kanaan.

Exodus 16:35 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 16:35

And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years
Wanting thirty days, as Jarchi observes; reckoning from their coming out of Egypt, and the passover they kept there, to their coming to the borders of the land of Canaan to Gilgal, and keeping the passover there, when the manna ceased, were just forty years; but then they had been out of Egypt a month before the manna fell; but the round number is given, as is common: it was on the sixteenth of Ijar, the second month, the manna fell; and it was in the month of Nisan, about the sixteenth or seventeenth of the month, that it ceased, see ( Joshua 5:10-12 )

until they came to a land inhabited:
where the ground was cultivated, and corn was produced to make bread of, which could not be had in a wilderness; and therefore God graciously provided for them every day, and fed them with manna till they came to such a place:

they did eat manna until they came to the borders of the land of
Canaan;
that is, Gilgal: the Targum of Jonathan is,

``they ate manna forty years in the life of Moses, until they came unto the land of habitation; they ate manna forty days after his death, until they passed over Jordan, and entered the extremities of the land of Canaan:''

some have thought this verse was not written by Moses, but Joshua, or some other hand after his death since he did not live quite to the cessation of the manna; which need not be much disputed or objected to; though it may be considered that Moses led Israel to the borders of the land of Canaan, though he did not go with them so far as Gilgal, and died before the manna ceased; yet, as he was assured of it, he could write this in certain faith of it, and especially by a spirit of prophecy: this signifies that the children of God are to live by faith upon Christ, while they are in the wilderness of this world; nor will this spiritual food be wanting to them while in it; but when they are come to Canaan's land, to the heavenly glory, they will no more walk and live by faith, but by sight: the word and ordinances will then cease; Christ will be no more held forth to them in that way, but they shall see him as he is, and behold his glory,

Exodus 16:35 In-Context

33 Ook zeide Mozes tot Aaron: Neem een kruik, en doe een gomer vol Man daarin; en zet die voor het aangezicht des HEEREN, tot bewaring voor uw geslachten.

34 Gelijk als de HEERE aan Mozes geboden had, alzo zette ze Aaron voor de getuigenis tot bewaring.

35 En de kinderen Israels aten Man veertig jaren, totdat zij in een bewoond land kwamen; zij aten Man, totdat zij kwamen aan de pale van het land Kanaan.

36 Een gomer nu is het tiende deel van een efa.