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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 19:24/אבן עזרא על בראשית י״ט:כ״ד
אמאת ד'. לשון צחות, והטעם מאתו וכן תמצא בפסוק אחד ה' פעמים בני ישראל:
1FROM THE LORD. This is a poetic way of saying from Himself.41. The second from the Lord is redundant. The line should have read: then the Lord caused rain…from Himself out of heaven. I.E. points out that it is poetic to repeat “the Lord” twice. The term I.E. uses for poetic is tzachot (elegant). Weiser interprets it to mean, in our context, precise. The Bible wanted to be precise. We similarly find Scripture repeating the term the children of Israel five times in one verse (Num. 8:19).