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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 24:41/אבן עזרא על בראשית כ״ד:מ״א
אאז תנקה מאלתי. ולא אמר משבועתי והטעם כי אפחד מאדני ומאלתו:
1THEN SHALT THOU BE CLEAR FROM MY OATH. The servant did not say, from my shevu’ah (oath).46. However, in verse 8, Scripture employs the term shevu’ah. Alah is an oath which has a curse attached to it. Cf. Num. 5:21. The servant thus emphasized that the oath he took had a curse attached to it; i.e., a curse would fall upon him if he violated the oath (Weiser). What he meant was, “I fear my master and his curse.”