for the Sabbath (Exodus 16:5). Some went out to seek the manna on the Sabbath and found none (Exodus 16:27). God’s provision was both wonderful and mysterious: it did not matter how much the people sought to collect on any day, what they gathered was identical (Exodus 16:17,18). God’s provision of bread from heaven lasted forty years until the people came to the habitable land of Canaan and fed upon the food it produced (Exodus 16:35). ‘The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the
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