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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 29:39/אבן עזרא על שמות כ״ט:ל״ט
אאת הכבש. ה"א הכבש בעבור ה"א אחרת, כאלו הוא את הכבש האחד ור' משה הכהן אמר כי את הכבש כבש אחד:
1THE ONE LAMB. The heh prefixed to the word keves (lamb) also serves as a prefix to the word echad (one).131 is ungrammatical. Hence I.E.’s comment. The phrase is to be read as if written, et ha-keves ha-echad (the one lamb).132. There too I.E. comments that the heh prefixed to the word keves also serves as a prefix to the word echad and that the phrase is to be read as if written ha-keves ha-echad. I.E. might have been commenting from memory and confused the two sections. However, Shadal, Meijler, and Filwarg believe that I.E. had a version of the Pentateuch in which Ex. 29:39 read: et ha-keves echad. Rabbi Moses Ha-Kohen says that the meaning of et ha-keves echad is, the lamb, one lamb.133 is to be read as if written twice, that is, et ha-keves, keves echad. This comment is also repeated in Num. 28:4.