Holy Scripture
Exodus 16:35
A church father on this verse
“Let us also see if we are able to find Quadragesima's mystical number somewhere else in the Scriptures. We read that holy Moses fed the children of Israel with heavenly manna in the desert for the space of forty years. Good is the number, then, which always opens heaven. Good is the number, I say, by which Noah's righ…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
35And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to the land they ate the manna, until they came to the region of Phoenicia.
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In context
33And Moses said to Aaron, Take a golden pot, and cast into it one full omer of manna; and thou shalt lay it up before God, to be kept for your generations,
34as the Lord commanded Moses: and Aaron laid it up before the testimony to be kept.
— Exodus 16:35 —
36Now the omer was the tenth part of three measures.