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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 12:43/אבן עזרא על שמות י״ב:מ״ג
אויאמר. בעבור שהזכיר ליל שמורים והוא ליל חמשה עשר שבו יאכל הפסח השלים לפרש חקת פסח דורות והנה לא הזכיר דבר המשקיף והמזוזה, ולא הזכיר על מצות ומרורים, כי כבר הזכירו בפסח מצרים, והנה הטעם תאכלו הפסח לדורות כפסח מצרים, והוסיף מצות אחרות רק מצות המשקוף והמזוזה, אינה מענין אכילת הפסח, הלא תראה בתחלת הפרשה, כל בן נכר לא יאכל בו, והטעם כמו ממנו, כי נכון הוא בלשון הקדש, גם בלשון ערבי לומר כך וכמוהו והנותר בבשר ובלחם (ויקרא ח לב):
1AND THE LORD SAID…THIS IS THE ORDINANCE OF THE PASSOVER. Since Scripture mentioned that it was a night of watching (v. 42), the reference being to the night of the fifteenth wherein the paschal lamb is to be eaten, the Torah completes its explanation of the laws of the Passover495 that is to be observed in future generations. Now Scripture does not mention the lintel and the side-post. Neither does it mention that the lamb is to be eaten with unleavened bread and bitter herbs,496 as they were previously mentioned with regard to the Passover observed in Egypt. Its meaning497. thus is: you shall eat the Passover offering in the future as you ate it in Egypt. Scripture then added other commandments.498 However, the commandments with regard to the lintel and the side-post have nothing to do with the eating of the paschal lamb.499 Do you not see that at the beginning of the chapter (i.e., v. 43) it states, there shall no alien eat thereof (bo)?500 The meaning of bo (thereof) is, of it.501 usually means in him or in it. Its usage in this context is correct in Hebrew502 (he shall not eat of it), although from a very literal point of view it means he shall not eat in it. and also in Arabic.503 Ve-hanotar ba-basar u-va-lechem (and that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread) (Lev. 8:32) is similar.504 means “of.” Ba-basar literally means in the meat and ba-lechem in the bread. However, in Lev. 8:32 ba-basar u-va-lechem are to be rendered of the flesh and of the bread.