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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 1:5/אבן עזרא על דברים א׳:ה׳
אהואיל משה באר. שנים פעלים עוברים דבקים בלא וי״ו וכן חמק עבר והנה משה החל לפרש לבנים שנולדו במדבר מה שאירע לאבותיהם ואמר להם כל המצות גם עשרת הדברים ששמעו אבותיהם מפי השם ישמעום גם הם מפי ציר נאמן:
1TOOK MOSES UPON HIM TO EXPLAIN. Ho’il (took upon himself) and be’er (to explain) are two verbs in the perfect attached to each other without a connective vav.37. Hence I.E.’s comments. According to I.E., ho’il moshe be’er (took Moses upon himself to expound) is to be explained as if written, ho’il moshe u-ve’er (Moses began and explained). We find the same in chamak avar (had turned away, and was gone) (Cant. 5:6). Look! Moses began to explain to the children who were born in the wilderness what happened to their fathers. He related to them all the commandments. They would also hear from the mouth of the faithful messenger the Ten Statements which their fathers heard from God.