5:12a

And: The Hebrew word that the Berean Standard Bible translates as And signals the next event in the storyline.

the day after: The phrase the day after refers to the morning after the Israelites celebrated the Passover feast. This was the day that the Israelites began to eat food from the land of Canaan.

they had: The word had marks a transitional event. Yahweh stopped sending manna when they ate the produce from the land.

eaten from the produce of the land: The phrase produce of the land refers to the barley grain that the Israelites gathered to roast and to make into bread.

5:12b

the manna: The manna is the food that Yahweh gave to the Israelites every morning while they walked through the wilderness. It is described in Exodus 16:13–16.

ceased: The word ceased means “stopped.” The manna appeared on the ground every morning for forty years. Now it no longer appeared. There is implied information: Yahweh is the one who sent the manna, and who stopped sending it.

Here is another way to translate this phrase:

Yahweh stopped sending the manna

5:12c

There was no more manna for the Israelites: The clause There was no more manna for the Israelites indicates that God no longer sent them manna from the sky.

5:12d

that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan: The clause the crops of the land of Canaan has the same meaning as the clause “the produce of the land” in 12a.

Here is another way to translate this phrase:

that year they ate things that grew in the land of Canaan

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