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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 19:11/אבן עזרא על שמות י״ט:י״א
אוהיו נכונים. אולי לא יישן אדם בהם בלילה שישמעו קול ה' בבקר כדרך כהן גדול ביום הכפורים:
1AND BE READY. Its meaning might be that no person among them should sleep during the night, after the manner of the high priest on Yom Kippur,104 1:7. Ibn Ezra takes issue with Midrash, which states that Israel overslept on the morning that the Torah was given. See chapter 42 of Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer. as Israel would hear God’s voice in the morning.