Tafsir Al-Jalalayn: Al-A'raaf, Ayah 162
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(But those of them who did wrong) the sinning people (changed the word which had been told them for another saying) they were commanded to say " hittah [there is no deity except Allah; or as in the other meaning: forgive our sins " ] but instead said " hintah [wheat] " , (and We sent down upon them wrath from heaven) We sent upon them the plague from heaven (for their wrong-doing) for changing what they were commanded to say.
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Al-Jalalayn Commentary
But the evildoers among them substituted a saying other than that which had been said to them they said instead ‘A grain inside a hair’ and entered the gate dragging themselves on their rears. So We sent down upon them terror a chastisement from the heaven for their evildoing.