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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 2:11/אבן עזרא על שמות ב׳:י״א
אויצא אל אחיו. המצרים כי בארמון המלך היה, וטעם מאחיו, אחר הזכיר עברי ממשפחתו כמו אנשים אחים (ברא' יג):
1THAT HE WENT OUT UNTO HIS BRETHREN. The Egyptians,131 for he was in the king’s palace.132, because Moses went out of the palace (Krinsky). Or I.E. is explaining why Moses considered the Egyptians his brethren. He did so because he was brought up in the king’s palace. One of his brethren means one of his family, as in for we are brethren (Gen. 13:6).133 Our clause is to be so understood because Scripture has already noted that the man was a Hebrew.134. If one of his brethren means a Hebrew then the Bible is being redundant. I.E. thus explains that one of his brethren means a member of his family.