Forty Years — Exodus 16:32–36
And Moses said,
This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.
EX 16:32
And Moses said unto Aaron,
Take a pot, and put an omerful of manna therein, and lay it up before Jehovah, to be kept throughout your generations.
EX 16:33
As Jehovah commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
EX 16:34
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.
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EX 16:35
Now an omer is the tenth part of an ephah.
EX 16:36