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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 17:10/אבן עזרא על בראשית י״ז:י׳

אומלת המול לכם. כמו להמול והוא שם הפועל מהפעלים השניים הנראים כמו וימל את בשר ערלתם (בראשית יז כג), ומשקלו להכון:

1[EVERY MALE AMONG YOU SHALL BE CIRCUMCISED.] Himmol (shall be circumcised) is to be read as if it had a lamed prefixed to it. It is an infinitive.⁹ might be taken to be an imperative, hence I.E.’s comment. It belongs to the verbs having a vav as the middle letter of their root.¹⁰, its root being mem, vav, lamed. It is like va-yamal¹¹. in and circumcised (va-yamal) the flesh of their foreskin (v. 23). It follows the paradigm of le-hikkon (to be prepared).¹² is caf, vav, nun. Le-himmol is the same form as le-hikkon. Both le-himmol and le-hikkon are nifal infinitives.