Cell references in cell references

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I found a workaround using VLOOKUP.
However, now I have a bunch of ugly nested IF statements. Ideally I'd be able to refer to the table name via a cell value instead of this mess. Any ideas?
=
IF($A16="data A",
VLOOKUP($B16,data A :: $A$2:$D$31,2),
IF($A16="data B",
VLOOKUP($B16,data B :: $A$2:$D$31,2),
0))

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