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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 1:31/אבן עזרא על בראשית א׳:ל״א
אוירא, יום הששי, י"א שיום סמוך וטעם לגלגל הששי וכן יום השביעי, ואין זה אמת, ובעל יום הששי על דעת אנשי המזלות יוכיח, רק פירושו יום שהוא ששי ליום הראשון וכן יום השביעי ונמצא כן "איש הישראלי" (ויקרא כד י), ורבים כמוהם, גם כן רקיע השמים (בראשית א כ) הרקיע שהוא שמים:
1THE SIXTH DAY. Some say that the word yom (day) is in the construct with sixth,168 should have a definite article prefixed to it, i.e., ha-yom ha-shishi rather than yom ha-shishi, as in Deut. 3:25 ha-har ha-tov (that goodly hill-country); or both yom and shishi should be written without a heh, as in yom sheni (a second day). Hence yom ha-sheshi means the day of the sixth (Filwarg). and the meaning of yom ha-shishi (the sixth day) is the day of the sixth sphere.169 They say the same with regard to yom ha-shevi’i (the seventh day). However, they are wrong. Proof of their error is found in the teaching of the astrologers who tell us who the lord170 of the sixth day is.171 The meaning of yom ha-shishi, then, is the sixth day from day one. This is also the meaning of the seventh day. We similarly find172 and the adjective is (Filwarg). ish ha-yisraeli (the Israelite man) (Leviticus 24:10)173, taking man to be in the construct with Israel. and many such cases, among them reki’a ha-shamayim (Gen. 1:20),174, taking firmament to be in the construct with heaven. which should be rendered as “the firmament which is heaven.”