Then the manna ceased… and the children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of Canaan… Joshua 5:12
This was a watershed moment in the history of the Children of Israel. They had been miraculously emancipated after 400+ years of Egyptian slavery; a slavery so entrenched in their psyche that dependency seemed absolutely normal.
After being dependent on the Egyptian system of government for so long, they viewed themselves as poor victims.
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