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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 12:33/אבן עזרא על שמות י״ב:ל״ג
אותחזק. לשון נקבה כי מדינת מצרים כוללת הכל:
1WERE URGENT. Va-techezak (were urgent) is in the feminine,431 (Egypt) is a masculine form. Scripture thus should have read, va-yechezak. because the state of Egypt includes everything.432 is short for medinat mitzrayim (the state of Egypt). Medinah is feminine, hence the reading va-techezak (Krinsky).
בוטעם כלנו מתים. פירשתיו במלת יפגענו (למעלה ה ג):
2[WE ARE ALL DEAD.] I have explained its meaning in my comments on lest he fall upon us with pestilence (Ex. 5:3).