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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 27:3/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ז:ג׳
אוטעם לדשנו. להסיר הדשן ממנו ומלת ידשנה סלה (תה' כ, ד) יעשה ממנה דשן, וטעם שתהיה נשרפת על גבי המזבח ומקובלת, והנה תדשן עצם (משלי טו ל) מבנין אחר שהוא הכבד הדגוש, והוא מגזרת מאשר שמנה לחמו (ברא' מט כ):
1[TO TAKE AWAY ITS ASHES.] The meaning of ledasheno is, to take away its ashes. The meaning of yedasheneh (accept the fat) in And accept the fat of thy burnt-sacrifice; Selah (Ps. 20:4) is, he shall make ashes out of it.10 Its meaning is that the sacrifice will be burnt on the altar and accepted.11 Observe the word tedashen (make fat) in maketh the bones fat (Prov. 15:30). They all belong to the same12, and tedashen are all pi’els. Hence the commentaries suggest emending acher (different) to echad (one or same). See Filwarg, Krinsky, and Weiser. It should be noted that the Margoli’ot Tuvah edition of I.E. reads echad rather than acher. conjugational form,13 in the pi’el form can have a number of meanings: to take away ashes, to turn into ashes, and to fatten. namely, the pi’el. The meaning of tedashen is to fatten, as in As for Asher, his bread shall be fat (Gen. 49:20).14 does not appear in it. I.E. merely uses it in order to define the word tedasheno. I.E. literally reads: tedashen has the same meaning as, As for Asher, his bread shall be fat.
בויעיו. כמו ויעה ברד (ישעי' כח, יז):
2AND ITS SHOVELS. The word ve-ya’av (and its shovels) is similar to the word ve-ya’ah (shall sweep away) in And the hail shall sweep away (Is. 28:17).15 literally means: and its sweepers. He probably rendered ve-ya’av as: and its brushes, or, and its scrapers. See Krinsky.
גולמ"ד לכל כליו. נוסף, כמו למן היום אשר יוסד בית ה' (חגי ב יח):
3[ALL THE VESSELS THEREOF.] The lamed in le-khol (all)16 in le-khol kelav (all the vessels thereof) is superfluous.17 It is like the lamed in le-min (from)18 is to be translated as if written min (from). in from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid (Haggai 2:18).19