Exodus 16:35
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, till they came to a habitable land: with this meat were they fed, until they reached the borders of the land of Chanaan.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Filii autem Israël comederunt man quadraginta annis, donec venirent in terram habitabilem : hoc cibo aliti sunt, usquequo tangerent fines terræ Chanaan.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- οἱ δὲ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἔφαγον τὸ μὰν ἔτη τεσσεράκοντα, ἕως ἦλθον εἰς τὴν οἰκουμένην. ἐφάγοσαν τὸ μὰν ἕως παρεγένοντο εἰς μέρος τῆς Φοινίκης.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וּבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אָֽכְל֤וּ אֶת הַמָּן֙ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֔ה עַד בֹּאָ֖ם אֶל אֶ֣רֶץ נוֹשָׁ֑בֶת אֶת הַמָּן֙ אָֽכְל֔וּ עַד בֹּאָ֕ם אֶל קְצֵ֖ה אֶ֥רֶץ כְּנָֽעַן
Haydock's commentary
Land. Manna was withdrawn as soon as usual food could be easily procured. (Haydock)
In this desert of the world, we are supported by the sacraments. As manna fell in the night, so the mysteries of faith are concealed from the curious researches of men. It melted with the sun beams; so mysteries confound the idle attempts of those who would fathom their impenetrable depth. Those who ate manna died, but the worthy receiver of the blessed sacrament will live for ever. (Calmet)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm XCV
11. “As in the provocation, and in the day of temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers proved Me” ( ver. 9 ). Let such be no more your fathers: imitate them not. They were your fathers, but if ye do not imitate them, they shall not be your fathers: yet as ye were born of them, they were your fathers. And if the heathen who came from the ends of the earth, in the words of Jeremias, “The Gentiles shall come unto Thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our forefathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit:” if the heathen forsook their idols, to come to the God of Israel; ought Israel whom their own God led from Egypt through the Red Sea, wherein He overwhelmed their pursuing foes; whom He led out into the wilderness, fed with manna, never took His rod from correcting them, never deprived them of the blessings of His mercy; ought they to d …