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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 24:5/אבן עזרא על דברים כ״ד:ה׳
אאשה חדשה. י״א בתולה ולדעת רבים חדשה כנגדו כי יוכל להשיב אשה גרושה אם לא נטמאה ועל כן חדשה:
1A NEW WIFE. Some say a virgin.10 According to many its meaning is new to him,11 for it is possible for a man to remarry the woman whom he has divorced if she has not been defiled. Scripture therefore reads a new wife.
בנקי יהיה לביתו. שלא יהיה עליו עול מלכות:
2HE SHALL BE FREE FOR HIS HOUSE. The yoke of the king shall not be upon him.12
גנקי כמו אי נקי:
3FREE. Naki (free) is similar to naki (innocent)13 in him that is innocent (Job 22:30).
דלמ״ד לכל דבר. נוסף כמו והשלישי לאבשלום:
4[WITH ANY BUSINESS.] The lamed placed before le-khol davar (with any business) is superfluous.14 should be read kol davar. Le-khol davar literally means to any business. Khol davar means any business. It is like the lamed in le-avshalom (Absalom) in the third, Absalom (I Chron. 3:2).15. Literally, the third, to Absalom. However, the context does not permit this interpretation. Hence the lamed of le-avshalom is superfluous, and le-avshalom is to be read as if written avshalom.