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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 14:23/אבן עזרא על דברים י״ד:כ״ג
אובכורות בקרך. יאכלם מי שהוא ראוי לאכלם כאשר פירשתי:
1AND THE FIRSTLINGS OF THY HERD. The one who is fit49. to eat them shall eat them, as I have previously explained.
בלמען תלמד. הטעם כי כאשר תלך אל מקום הכבוד שם ילמדוך וטעם שנית להיות למען תלמד כטעם עגלה מלומדה והטעם רגילות והוא הישר בעיני:
2THAT THOU MAYEST LEARN.50. This means that when you go to the revered place,51 there they [kohanim] will teach you. There is a second meaning to le-ma’an tilmad (that thou mayest learn). Tilmad is similar in meaning to melummadah (well broken), as in And Ephraim is a heifer well broken (Hos. 10:11). Its meaning is habituated.52 This interpretation appears correct to me.