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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 24:5/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ד:ה׳
אוישלח את נערי. הם הבחורים בני הזקנים הבחורים שיעלו עם משה:
1AND HE SENT THE YOUNG MEN OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. The reference is to the young men who were the sons of the chosen15 (the chosen). Vat. Ebr. 38 has ha-bekhorim (the first-born). See I.E. on verse 1. elders who were to go up on the mountain with Moses.
בויעלו עלת. וזהו וזבחת עליו (למעלה כ כא):
2WHO OFFERED BURNT-OFFERINGS. This is what and shalt sacrifice thereon (Ex. 20:21) refers to.
גוהזכיר עם השלמים פרים כי האוכלים רבים היו:
3Scripture mentions that oxen were offered as peaceofferings because many people partook of the peaceofferings.16