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Manna
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “name of the food miraculously produced for the israelites in the desert in the book of exodus”. Today it says “described in the bible and the quran as an edible substance that god bestowed upon the israelites while they we”.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “name of the food miraculously produced for the israelites in the desert in the book of exodus”. Today it says “described in the bible and the quran as an edible substance that god bestowed upon the israelites while they we”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Manna (sometimes or archaically spelled mana ) is the name of the food miraculously produced for the Israelites in the desert in the book of Exodus . Manna ceased to appear when the Israelites first harvested their crops in their new homeland. "Man hu", or "manna" in the Hebrew language is translated as "what is it".1
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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “name of the food miraculously produced for the israelites in the desert in the book of exodus”. Today it says “described in the bible and the quran as an edible substance that god bestowed upon the israelites while they we”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
name of the food miraculously produced for the israelites in the desert in the book of exodus
Now
edible substance that
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