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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 25:1/אבן עזרא על דברים כ״ה:א׳
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1AND…JUDGE THEM. U-shefatum1 literally means and they will judge them. The subject is omitted. Our verse literally reads, if there be a controversy between men and they go unto judgment, and they judge them (u-shefatum). Hence I.E. explains that “and they judge them” is short for: and the judges judge them. is to be rendered, and the judges judge them. Our verse is similar to No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge (Deut. 24:6).2