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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 29:14/אבן עזרא על דברים כ״ט:י״ד

אנו״‎ן ישנו. נוסף:

1[BUT WITH HIM THAT STANDETH HERE WITH US THIS DAY.] The nun of yeshno (that standth here) is superfluous.²⁸ is the word yesh plus the third person pronominal suffix. That suffix is a vav. Thus we would expect yesho rather than yeshno. Hence I.E.’s comment (Krinsky).

בואת אשר איננו. עם אשר איננו רק יבא אחרינו ואינו כטעם האומרים כי רוחות הבאים היו שם:

2AND ALSO WITH HIM THAT IS NOT HERE WITH US. Ve’et asher ennnu (and also with him that is not) means with him that is not here with us²⁹ means and with. This is not the usual meaning of et. Hence I.E.’s comment. See I.E. on Gen. 1:1 (Vol. 1, p. 27): “Et means the very thing…However, sometimes…et is used in place of with.” but will come after us. It is not to be interpreted as those who say that the spirits of the coming generations were there.³⁰. See Tanchuma, Nitzavim: The souls were there, but the bodies [these souls were to enter] had not yet been created.