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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 23:13/אבן עזרא על דברים כ״ג:י״ג
אויד. מקום כמו יד הירדן גם זו ראיה כי ממחנ' ישראל לא יצא בעל קרי ולא כל אדם בשעת הצורך ואף כי התינוקות והעד שאמר הכתוב וישלחו מן המחנה כל צרוע וכל זב וכל טמא לנפש והטעם כל טמא מטמא ולא טמא יום:
1A PLACE. The word yad means a place.39 literally means a hand. Hence I.E.’s comment. Compare, yad ha-yarden (by the side of the Jordan) (Num. 13:29). This too is proof [that Scripture speaks of a small camp],40 for none of the following had to leave the camp of Israel:41 one who experienced an ejaculation, one who had to tend to his bodily needs, and certainly no children. Proof of this is the verse which states, that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead (Num. 5:2),42 which refers to uncleanliness that is passed on43 and not to one who is unclean for a day.44