Exodus 16:1

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Manna and Quail

16 The whole Israelite community set out from Elim and came to the Desert of Sin,^(A) which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had come out of Egypt.^(B)

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Exodus 16:35

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³⁵The Israelites ate manna^(A) forty years,^(B) until they came to a land that was settled; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.^(C)

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Numbers 14:33

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³³Your children will be shepherds here for forty years,^(A) suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.

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Psalm 95:8-10

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⁸“Do not harden your hearts^(A) as you did at Meribah,^[a]^(B)
    as you did that day at Massah^[b] in the wilderness,^(C)
⁹where your ancestors tested^(D) me;
    they tried me, though they had seen what I did.
¹⁰For forty years^(E) I was angry with that generation;
    I said, ‘They are a people whose hearts go astray,^(F)
    and they have not known my ways.’^(G)

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Footnotes

Psalm 95:8 Meribah means quarreling.
Psalm 95:8 Massah means testing.

Acts 7:42

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⁴²But God turned away from them^(A) and gave them over to the worship of the sun, moon and stars.^(B) This agrees with what is written in the book of the prophets:

“‘Did you bring me sacrifices and offerings
forty years in the wilderness, people of Israel?

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