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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 33:4/אבן עזרא על דברים ל״ג:ד׳
אתורה צוה לנו משה. זהו שישא ויאמר דור לדור כך העתקנו מפי משה ירושה בידינו ויהיה למ״ד לנו מושך עצמו ואחר עמו. וכן היא מורשה לקהלת יעקב כמו והנבואה עודד הנביא ויהי מורשה מורשה קהלת יעקב:
1MOSES COMMANDED US A LAW. This is what they shall bear upon their lips and say from generation to generation: thus did we copy with our hands an inheritance from the mouth of Moses.49 The lamed of lanu (us) applies to itself and also to another word.50. Morashah kehillat ya’akov (an inheritance congregation of Jacob)51 literally means an inheritance congregation of Jacob. Hence I.E.’s comment. should be read as if written morashah le-kehillat ya’akov (an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob). It is similar to ve-hanevu’ah oded ha-navi (even the prophecy Oded the prophet)52 (II Chronicles 15:8).53 [even the prophecy (they), prophecy of Oded the prophet]. See I.E. on Gen. 2:9 (Vol. 1, p. 54). Or54 morashah (an inheritance) should be read as if written twice. Our clause should be read as if written an inheritance, an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.55 (Moses commanded us a law, an inheritance, an inheritance of the congregation of Jacob).