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15 On seeing it, the Israelites asked one another, “What is this?”[a] for they did not know what it was. But Moses told them, “It is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat.(A)

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  1. 16:15 What is this: the Hebrew man hu is thus rendered by the ancient versions, which understood the phrase as a popular etymology of the Hebrew word man, “manna”; but some render man hu, “This is manna.”

15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know(A) what it was.

Moses said to them, “It is the bread(B) the Lord has given you to eat.

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