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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 29:14/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ט:י״ד
אואת בשר. כולל הראש והנתחים:
1BUT THE FLESH OF THE BULLOCK. Flesh takes in the head and the pieces of the bullock.
בופרשו. דרך סברא ירחצוהו ואח"כ ישרפוהו והקטיר האמורים:
2AND ITS DUNG.65 38. Also see Meijler. Logically speaking,66 it67 was to be washed and then it68 is: and the place where the dung collected thou shalt burn. was to be burned.69 (and its dung) to u-lefi. He interprets But the flesh of the bullock as follows: Flesh takes in the head and the pieces of the bullock. Now logically speaking, it was to be washed and then it was to be burned; i.e., the bullock was to be washed in the same manner that the ram (v. 17) was. See Weiser, Sarim, and Filwarg.. AND HE SHALL MAKE THEM SMOKE (ve-hiktir).70 (and he shall make them smoke) does not appear in our verse. Weiser suggests that it has been transposed from verse 13. However, verse 13 reads ve-hiktarta (and make them smoke). Weiser explains that the original comment on verse 13 reads as follows: Ve-hiktarta (and [thou shalt] make them smoke). Commenting on this, I.E. writes: Ve-hiktir (and he shall make them smoke). That is, Moses himself was not commanded to personally place the organs on the fire; another priest would do as well. For some reason, a copyist left out the heading ve-hiktarta and the word ve-hiktir was transposed to verse 14. Meijler, on the other hand, claims that the word ve-hiktir should not be read as a heading but rather as the continuation of the previous sentence. The latter should read: Logically speaking, it was washed and then it was burned. After this, the priest smoked the enumerated organs. The reference is to the enumerated organs.71
גומלת חטאת. בעבור שהיא קרבה לכפר החטאת נקראת כן, וככה האשם על כן וחטאו את המזבח (יחז' מג כב) יסירו חטא מעליו:
3[SIN-OFFERING.] A sin offering is called a chatat 72 because it is brought to atone for a sin. The same applies to the asham (guilt-offering).73 Hence the meaning of ve-chitte’u et ha-mizbe’ach (they shall purify the altar)74 is: they shall remove the sin from the altar.