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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 33:3/אבן עזרא על שמות ל״ג:ג׳

אכי לא אעלה בקרבך. לא יעשו משכן, כי לא אשכון תוך בני ישראל:

1FOR I WILL NOT GO UP IN THE MIDST OF THEE. They will not erect the tabernacle,⁹ for I will not rest in the midst of Israel.

בוטעם פן אכלך בדרך. אם יעשו פעם אחרת כמעשה הזה מיד אכלם, ובא פתח קטן תחת גדול, ולא נדגש הלמ"ד כי המשפט להיותו כן כמו, אֲחַוְך שמע לי (איוב טו יז):

2[LEST I CONSUME THEE IN THE WAY.] I will immediately consume them if they once again act in this manner. Akhelkha (I consume thee) is vocalized with a segol¹⁰. in place of a pattach, and its lamed does not have a dagesh in it even though the rules of grammar require it.¹¹ beneath the kaf and that a dagesh be placed in the lamed. Compare the word achavvekha (I will tell thee)¹² should have followed the vocalization of achavvekha. in I will tell thee, hear thou me (Job 15:17).¹³ of achavvekha does not have a dagesh in it. However, it is obvious that it did in I.E.’s edition. See Minchat Shai on Job 15:17.