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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 31:15/אבן עזרא על שמות ל״א:ט״ו
אששת. ועוד הוסיף לפרש כי ששת ימים מותרים לעשות מלאכה, ובא מלת יעשה עם מלאכה אולי יחסר מלת כל, או דבר מעשה והנה הטעם אם יעשה מלאכה בפרהסיא המיתוהו אתם:
1SIX DAYS. Scripture goes on to explain that they are permitted to do work on the other six days of the week.60 The word ye’aseh (shall be done)61 governs the word melakhah (work).62 Perhaps the word kol (any)63 is short for ye’aseh kol melakah (shall any sort of work be done). Filwarg points out that I.E. is of the opinion that in such cases verbs and nouns do not have to agree. Thus Esth. 1:20 reads: ve-khol ha-nashim yittenu (all the wives will give). Yittenu is masculine. Nashim is feminine. See I.E. on Esth. 1:20. or devar ma’aseh (an act of)64 is short for ye’aseh devar ma’aseh melakhah (shall an act of work be done). Devar and ma’aseh are masculine. Filwarg suggests interpreting ye’aseh melakhah as short for ye’aseh devar melakhah (shall an act of work be done), or ye’aseh melakhah as short for ye’aseh ma’aseh melakhah (shall acts of work be done). is missing. Now its meaning is, you shall kill him if he does work in public.65 is: you shall kill him if he does work in public.