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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 25:27/אבן עזרא על בראשית כ״ה:כ״ז
איודע ציד, לעולם מלא מרמות כי רוב החיות בדרך מרמה יתפשו, ויעקב הפך עשו כי הוא איש תם גם עשו איש שדה, ויעקב יושב אהלים, ויתכן להיות פירושו כמו "יושב אהל ומקנה" (בראשית ד' כ):
1A CUNNING HUNTER. Esau was constantly practicing deception, for most animals are trapped through trickery.53 Jacob was his antithesis, because he was a man of integrity.54 is translated by J.P.S. as a quiet man. However, according to I.E., as Jacob was the antithesis of Esau, the deceiver, the term tam should be rendered as honest, sound, as in that man was whole-hearted (tam) and upright, and one that feared God (Job 1:1). They also differed in that Esau was a man of the field and Jacob a man dwelling in tents. It is possible that the meaning of dwelling in tents is like dwell in tents and have cattle (Gen. 4:20).55