What is the context?
Israel keeps Passover at Gilgal on the fourteenth day of the month. The people eat unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
The manna then ceases, and the people eat the crops of Canaan that year. The account marks a change from wilderness provision to food from the promised land. The source of food changes while the Lord’s care continues.
Passover remembrance stands beside entry into the inheritance. The people who have crossed the Jordan worship the Lord who delivered them from Egypt, rather than treating settlement as a new story unrelated to that deliverance.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley sees the end of manna as the ending of a special provision once other food is available. The USCCB notes connect the first-month celebration with the time of the exodus. The narrative gives the sequence of celebration, eating the land’s produce, and manna ceasing; an exact reconstructed timetable should be distinguished from those stated events.
Where does this fit in God's plan?
1 Corinthians 5:6–8 identifies Christ as the sacrificed Passover lamb and uses unleavened bread to call believers to sincerity and truth. This carries the Passover theme into life in Christ. It does not identify the ending of manna in Joshua as a separate prediction of the crucifixion.
What is our position?
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