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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 32:25/אבן עזרא על שמות ל״ב:כ״ה
אוירא משה את העם כי פרע הוא. כמו באין חזון יפרע עם (משלי כט יח) ותפרעו כל עצתי (שם א כה):
1AND WHEN MOSES SAW THAT THE PEOPLE WERE BROKEN LOOSE. The word paru’a (broken loose) is similar to yippare’a (cast off restraint) in Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint (Prov. 28:18), and va-tifre’u (ye have set at nought) in But ye have set at nought all my counsel (Prov. 1:25).
בומלת לשמצה. שם התואר תחת שם הפועל להיותם שמץ ודופי ודבה:
2[FOR A DERISION.] Scripture employs an adjective (le-shimtzah) in place of an infinitive.118. The meaning of le-shimtzah (for a derision) is that they will be a derision, a blemish, a defamation.119
גבקמיהם. כמו רבים קמו עלי (תה' ג ב) אף מן קמי (שם יח מט) דרך קצרה, ותרגם ארמית כדרך, והנה קמתם תחת אבותיכם (במד' לב, יד):
3AMONG THEIR ENEMIES. Kamehem (their enemies)120 can be translated as their risings. Hence I.E.’s comment. is similar to kamim alai (rise up against me)121 means those who arise against them, i.e., their enemies. in Many are they that rise up against me (Ps. 3:2) and the abridged form kamai (rise up against me)122 is short for ha-kamim alai. See Weiser and Krinsky. in that rise up against me (Ps. 18:49). However, the Aramaic translation connects kamehem to the word kamtem (ye are risen) in And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead (Num. 32:14).123 as their rising, i.e., the generations that rise up in their place. He explains le-shimtzah be-kamehem to mean, to give them a bad name throughout their coming generations.