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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 2:16/אבן עזרא על דברים ב׳:ט״ז

אויהי כאשר תמו. דבק עם וידבר ה' אלי כמו ויהי ככלות משה לכתוב גם ויהי ביום דבר ה' ורבים כן והטעם ויהי כאשר תמו הם אמר השם שנעבור את גבול ער:

1SO IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ALL THE MEN OF WAR WERE CONSUMED. Our verse is connected to that the Lord spoke unto me saying (v. 17).⁹, they are in two sections. It is similar to And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing (Deut. 31:24)¹⁰ and And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spoke (Ex. 6:28).¹¹, they do not form one section. See I.E. on Ex. 6:28 (Vol. 2, p. 141). There are many other such cases. It means,¹² And it came to pass when they¹³ were consumed, God said that we are about to pass over the border of Ar.