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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 25:6/אבן עזרא על בראשית כ״ה:ו׳
אמתנות. ממון נתן להם:
1GIFTS. He gave them money.6
בקדמה. פי' אל ארץ קדם, וכן "אשר לא יעבדו אותו את נבוכדנצר" (ירמי' כז ח), וקדם מזרח א"י, וי"א אל מקום בן ישמעאל והראשון נכון:
2EASTWARD. Kedemah (eastward) means unto the East country. And it shall come to pass, that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve him, Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon (Jer. 27:8)7. is similar. East means east of the land of Israel.8 is an explanation of eastward in the same way that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is an explanation of him. Others say that kedemah (eastward) means to the place where the son of Ishmael dwelt.9 means to Kedemah. Kedemah was a son of Ishmael (v. 15). According to this interpretation the verse is not redundant in stating unto the east country, for it is telling us where Kedemah dwelt. The first of these two interpretations is the correct one.