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.
An omer of manna laid up in a golden pot before the ark was a standing miracle, meant to silence every murmur. Posterity would see what sort of food sustained them, and judge whether they had cause to complain or reason to thank God; eaten bread must not be forgotten. The manna never failed them forty years, though Israel was provoking, thus God's providence is constant, and Christ Himself is the true manna, the bread of life.
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Commenting on Exodus 16:32-36
Some suppose Exodus was written after the manna ceased, since it speaks of the forty years in past tense; but these words may well have been added by Ezra when he collected and arranged the scattered books of the Old Testament under the Spirit's direction, inserting explanatory sentences to complete the sacred canon.
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Jehovah commanded Moses to preserve a jarful of manna as a perpetual memorial. Aaron placed it before the testimony, the tables of the law in the ark, so that the substance and constancy of God's miraculous provision would stand as witness to all generations.
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Commenting on Exodus 16:32-35