Exodus 16:35

“And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, etc.] 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 <060510>Joshua 5:10-12) until they came to a land inhabited: where the ground was cultivated, and…”

“Did eat manna forty years - This does not necessarily imply that the Israelites were fed exclusively on manna, or that the supply was continuous during forty years: but that whenever it might be needed, owing to the total or partial failure of other food, it was given until they entered the promised land. They had numerous flocks and herds, which were not slaughtered (see Numbers 11:22), but which gave them milk, cheese and of course a limited supply of flesh: nor is there any reason to suppose that during a considerable part of that time they may not have cultivated some spots of fertile ground in the wilderness. We may assume, as in most cases of miracle, that the supernatural supply was…”

“16:35 until they arrived at the land: God’s care for us is normally demonstrated in ordinary ways, as it would usually be for Israel after they arrived in Canaan (see Josh 5:10-12). That care is just as real as when it comes in extraordinary ways, as it did while Israel was in the wilderness.”

“forty years: Num 33:38; Deu 8:2, Deu 8:3; Neh 9:15, Neh 9:20, Neh 9:21; Psa 78:24, Psa 78:25; John 6:30-58 until they came to: Jos 5:12 the borders: Num 33:48-50; Deu 1:8, Deu 34:1-4 Exodus 16:36”