(Exodus 16 — 35) "And the children of Israel ate the manna

Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Mekhilta Tractate Vayassa 6:18

Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team · Published January 19, 2025

(Exodus 16:35) "And the children of Israel ate the manna for forty years": R. Yehoshua says: for forty days they ate the manna after the death of Moses. How so? Moses died on the seventh of Adar (when the manna ceased falling), and they ate of it (i.e., of what was left in their vessels) twenty-four days of the first Adar and sixteen of Nissan, making forty. As it is written (Joshua 5:12) "And the manna ceased (from their vessels) on the morrow" (of the first day of Pesach (Passover)), and (Ibid. 11) "And they ate of the old corn of the land on the morrow of the Pesach, matzoth and parched corn."

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