The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
World English Bible
This verse is examined in more than one Scripture Analysis section. Each lens is shown on its own terms, in the section's own words; GEBible reaches no verdict of its own.
Show this verse in
Show this verse in
Showing
WEB World English Bible Public Domain ✓
The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
World English Bible
Historical claims about the natural world, weighed against the scientific record.
The historical record: Excavations at Kadesh-Barnea and across the Sinai have not found remains of a mass, decades-long encampment. · 2 documented · 1 debated
Each section sets the viewpoints side by side; you weigh the evidence. Here, "critical scholarship" means academic study, not a value judgment. How this is built →
Within each section, grouped by shared field or question type — not a cross-section comparison.
This citation refers to this GEBible page — the verse and the analysis gathered here. To cite the underlying scholarship, cite those sources directly.
"Exodus 16:35 — Scripture Analysis" GEBible, https://gebible.app/analysis/verse/exodus/16/35?version=WEB (retrieved 27 August 2026).