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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 3:17/אבן עזרא על שמות ג׳:י״ז
אואמר. וכבר אמרתי לאבותיכם שאעלה אתכם, וזהו ואחרי כן יצאו ברכוש גדול (ברא' טו יד) וגם אנכי אעלך גם עלה (שם מו ד) או גזרתי עתה להיות זה כמו ותגזר אומר (איוב כב כה):
1AND I HAVE SAID. I have previously said to your fathers that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt, the reference being to and afterward shall they come out with great substance (Gen. 15:14), and to and I will also surely bring thee up again (Gen. 46:4). Or its meaning is, I have now decreed381, usually translated as and I have said, here means: and I have decreed. that this382 shall come to pass, as in Thou shalt also decree a thing (Job 22:28).383. What it means is: ve-tigzar ge-zerah. We thus see that the root alef, mem, resh sometimes means to decree. Hence va-omar may be rendered: and I have decreed, rather than, and I have said.