How Many Years Israel Ate the Manna in the Wilderness

"And the children of Israel ate the manna forty years" (Exodus 16:35). Rabbi Joshua says: Israel ate the manna forty days after the death of Moses. Moses died on the seventh of Adar, and they ate of it the twenty-four remaining days of Adar and sixteen days of Nisan. And so it says, "And the manna ceased on the next day, when they had eaten of the produce of the land" (Joshua 5:12). Rabbi Eleazar of Modiin says: the twenty-four days of Adar, and thirty days of a second Adar, for that year was a leap year, and they ate of it until the sixteenth of Nisan. And so it says, "And the manna ceased on the next day." Others say: Israel ate the manna fifty-four years. Forty years in the wilderness, seven of the conquest, and seven of the apportioning of the land, as it is said, "until they came to an inhabited land" (Exodus 16:35). What does "an inhabited land" teach? It teaches that for fourteen years Israel ate the manna after the death of Moses.