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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 9:15/אבן עזרא על שמות ט׳:ט״ו

אואךְ. חסר נו"ן כמו "ואט אליו אוכיל" (הושע יא ד) שניהם שוים, ושרשם נטה נכה:

1AND SMITTEN. Va-akh (and smitten) is missing a nun. It is like the word ve-at (though I was offering) in Though I was offering them food (Hos. 11:4). They are both the same. Their roots are nun, tet, heh and nun, kaf, heh.

בוטעם בדבר הידוע, שבו הרגתי המקנה שלכם הייתי הורג כלכם עמהם:

2[PESTILENCE.] Scripture reads, ba-dever (with pestilence)⁵⁷ is short for be-ha-dever (with the pestilence) and according to I.E. should be so translated, hence his comment. because it refers to the well-known pestilence. It means: I would have killed all of you along with your cattle with the pestilence with which I smote them.