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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 28:28/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ח:כ״ח
אומלת וירכסו. מגזרת מרכסי איש (תה' לא כא) כדרך עוות:
1AND THEY SHALL BIND. Ve-yirkesu is related to the word me-rukhse (from the plottings) in from the plottings of man (Ps. 31:21). It means twisted.137 (the root of ve-yirkesu and me-rukhse) means twisted. He renders Ps. 31:21: from the twisted actions of men. He similarly explains that ve-yirkesu et ha-choshen…al chesehev ha-ephod means that the choshen shall be twisted (that is, attached, for when one attaches something by a thread he twists it) upon the skillfully woven band of the ephod (Meijler). For other interpretations, see Krinsky.