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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 15:9/אבן עזרא על בראשית ט״ו:ט׳
אעז משולשת. י"א ג' עזים והישר בעיני בת שלש שנים:
1A SHE-GOAT OF THREE YEARS OLD. Some render ez meshuleshet as three she-goats.14 However, it appears to me that the correct translation of the phrase is: a she-goat three years old.
בואיל. הוא הכבש הגדול:
2AND A RAM. A full grown male sheep.15
גוגוזל. בן יונה כי מאלה לבדם הנזכרים בבהמה ובעוף העולות וכל קרבן:
3AND A YOUNG PIGEON. Gozal is a young dove.16 can also be translated as a fledgling. It can thus refer to any bird. Cf. Deut. 32:11. It is to be rendered this way because burnt offerings and other sacrifices were brought only from among the animals and birds mentioned here.