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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 27:8/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ז:ח׳

אומלת נבוב לחת. כמתורגם ארמית וכמוהו ואיש נבוב ילבב (איוב יא יב) שהוא ריק בלי לבב על דרך האומרים ראש בלי מוח, והנה לא נזכר הכיור כי לא נעשה מנדבת כל ישראל, רק מנדבת הנשים לבדם, על כן הזכירו עם פרשת הבשמים שכל ישראל לא הביאום רק הנשיאים לבדם:

1[HOLLOW WITH PLANKS.] Nevuv luchot (hollow with planks) is to be explained in accordance with the Aramaic translation.²² as chalil luche (hollow with planks). The phrase ve-ish nevuv yillavev (But an empty man will get understanding) (Job 11:12) is similar, for ish nevuv means an empty person, that is, a person lacking intelligence. The verse is similar to the aphorism, a head without a brain. The laver²³ is not mentioned²⁴, it should have been mentioned, as it was made right after the altar. See Ex. 38:1-8 (Krinsky). because it²⁵ was not made from the gifts which were donated by all of Israel. It was made only from the gifts of the women.²⁶ Hence the basin was mentioned with the chapter dealing with the spices,²⁷ for the spices were also not donated by all of Israel. The spices were given only by the princes.²⁸