^49 (A)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.

Old and New Apostates

⁵ But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that ^(A)the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.

¹⁷ Now with whom was He angry forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, ^(A)whose corpses fell in the wilderness? ¹⁸ And ^(B)to whom did He swear that they would not enter His rest, but to those who did not obey? ¹⁹ So we see that they could not enter in because of ^(C)unbelief.

³ all ate the same ^(A)spiritual food, ⁴ and all drank the same ^(B)spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them, and that Rock was Christ. ⁵ But with most of them God was not well pleased, for their bodies ^(C)were scattered in the wilderness.

^58 (A)This is the bread which came down from heaven—not ^(B)as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

^31 (A)Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, ^(B)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ”

⁶⁵ For the Lord had said of them, “They ^(A)shall surely die in the wilderness.” So there was not left a man of them, ^(B)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun.