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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 43:14/אבן עזרא על בראשית מ״ג:י״ד
אוטעם ואל שדי שיש לו כח לעשות כאלה:
1[AND GOD ALMIGHTY.] This phrase means the one who has the power to do all these things.
בכאשר שכלת. במות יוסף, אחשב כי שכלתי מהכל:
2IF I BE BEREAVED. As I was bereaved by the death of Joseph, I think that I will be bereaved of all my children.9. The literal translation of the latter is, and as for me, as I was bereaved (shakholti), I was bereaved. I.E. explains that the second shakholti although a perfect, is to be rendered as an imperfect Thus our verse reads, and as for me, as I was bereaved, so will I be (I think I will be, I fear I will be) bereaved. He explains it to mean: as I was bereaved of Joseph, I now fear that I will be bereaved of all my children. Cf. I.E.’s commentary on Es. 4:16.