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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 33:16/אבן עזרא על דברים ל״ג:ט״ז
אוממגד ארץ. כפול ארץ המישור:
1AND FOR THE PRECIOUS THINGS OF THE EARTH. Scripture repeats itself. The earth refers to flat land.129 is in contrast to the mountains and hills mentioned in the previous verse.
בומלואה. מאשר היא מלאה:
2AND THE FULNESS THEREOF. From what it is full of.130
גורצון שכני סנה. הוא השמים:
3AND THE GOOD WILL OF HIM THAT DWELT IN THE BUSH. The reference is to heaven.131 (bush) as meaning heaven. However, he rejects this interpretation in Ex. 3:2 (Vol. 2, pp. 52,53).
דתבואתה. הברכה הזאת והתחברו שנים סימנין התי״ו והה״א כמו עזרתה ישועתה בצרתה ובעבור שהזכיר התבואה דמה השבט לשור ואמר בכור שורו כי יש לו כח רב כי הוא ראשית און:
4LET THE BLESSING COME. Tavotah (let the blessing come)132 is the elongated or poetic form of the word tavo. refers to this blessing.133 Two signs,134 the tav and the heh, are joined together.135 should have read tavo’ah or tavo’at. Tavotah is a combination of the two. Compare, ezratah (help) (Ps. 44:27);136 is a combination of the two feminine forms ezrat and ezrah. yeshu’atah (salvation) (Ps. 3:3);137 (salvation) is a combination of the two feminine forms yeshu’ah and yeshu’at. ba-tzaratah (in…distress) (Ps. 120:1).138 is a combination of tzarah and tzarat. Moses compared the tribe of Joseph to a bullock because he earlier spoke of produce.139 Moses referred to Joseph as His firstling bullock (v. 17) because a first-born bullock has great strength as it is the first of its father’s might.