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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 26:28/אבן עזרא על בראשית כ״ו:כ״ח
אבינותינו. ריבוי אחר רבוי:
1BETWIXT US. Our verse contains two synonymous plurals in succession.16 (betwixt us) benenu u-vennekha (even betwixt us and thee). I.E. points out that benotenu and benenu are both plurals from the same root and mean the same. However, they belong to different paradigms. These two forms were employed by Scripture to avoid redundancy (Weiser). According to Filwarg what I.E. is saying is that one of these phrases could have been left out since they mean the same; i.e., benotenu (betwixt us) means the same as benenu u-venekha (even betwixt us and thee) Scripture repeated itself for emphasis.