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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 29:20/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ט:כ׳
אושחטת. תנוך אין לו ריע והגאון אמר הרך הדבק בעגול האזן:
1THEN THOU SHALT KILL…TIP. The word tenukh (tip) has no counterpart.84. This usually indicates that the word appears nowhere else in Scripture. See I.E. on Num. 11:7. However, the word tenukh appears six times in the Book of Leviticus. Hence Krinsky interprets en lo chaver as meaning: it has no counterpart except with regard to the ear. Saadiah Gaon says that it refers to the soft tissue which is connected to the circle of the ear.85
בבהן. ורבים בהנות ואיננו על משקל הלשון, והנה יהי' שם שנים משקלים, ורבים ככה בשמות:
2THE GREAT TOE. The plural of bohen (great toe) is behonot (Jud. 1:6). This is grammatically inconsistent.86 is behanot, not behonot. Compare, goren, geranot. The singular of bahon is behonot (Weiser). This noun is thus vocalized according to two paradigms.87 There are many such nouns.
גודם השני יזרוק כדם הראשון רק הדם הנשאר:
3[AND DASH THE BLOOD.] The blood of the second ram shall be dashed88 like the blood of the first ram.89 The reference is only to the remaining blood.90