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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 42:1/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ״ב:א׳

אוירא יעקב. בעבור היות ההרגשות נחברות במקום אחר יחליפו זו בזו, כמו, ראה ריח בני" (בראשית כז כז) "ומתוק האור" (קהלת יא ז), וכן וירא יעקב, כי אחריו כתיב "הנה שמעתי" (פ' ב):

1NOW JACOB SAW. Scripture interchanges¹ the way the senses² are referred to because they are all perceived in one central place.³ Thus Scripture says, See the smell of my son (Gen. 27:27);⁴ and And the light is sweet (Eccles. 11:7).⁵ Now Jacob saw is similar,⁶ for afterward Scripture states, Behold I have heard that there is corn in Egypt (v. 2).

בלמה תתראו. שיש לכם הון, או אל תהיו מריבים זה עם זה כמו נתראה פנים (דה"ב, כה, יז):

2WHY DO YOU LOOK ONE UPON ANOTHER. Lammah titra’u (why do you look one upon another) means, don’t show yourselves as having an abundance of food.⁷ Or it may mean, do not quarrel with each other, as in Come, let us look one another (nitra’eh) in the face (II Chron. 25:17).⁸ in II Chron. 25:17 as fight. Thus the root resh, alef, heh which usually means to see, at times also means to fight or quarrel. Hence titra’u is similar to nitra’eh, i.e., it means to quarrel.