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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 6:9/אבן עזרא על בראשית ו׳:ט׳
אאלה תולדות. כמו הקורות כטעם מה ילד יום (משלי כז א) וכמוהו אלה תולדות יעקב (בראשית לז ב):
1THESE ARE THE GENERATIONS. Toledot (generations) means the events that transpired during his lifetime, as in what a day may bring forth (yeled) (Prov. 27:1). These are the generations of Jacob (Gen. 37:2) is similar.
באיש צדיק במעשיו
2A MAN RIGHTEOUS. In his deeds.
גתמים. בלבו ותמים תאר השם מפעלי הכפל והוא תמים,
3AND WHOLE-HEARTED. In his heart. Tamim (wholehearted) is an adjective. It belongs to those roots whose second and third letters are the same. All three letters of the root remain in this word.29. This root gives birth both to tam (wholehearted) and tamim (wholehearted). In the former, a mem is dropped. In the latter, the whole root is found in the word. I.E. employs a pun. He says tamim is tamim. According to I.E. tamim is an adjective modifying man (Filwarg, Krinsky and Cherez).
דוטעם בדורותיו בדורו בעת המבול, ובדורות שהיו אחריו כי הוא חיה עד שהיה אברהם בן נ"ח שנה והסימן הוא ואברהם אבינו בן נ"ח כאשר מת נח:
4[IN HIS GENERATIONS.] At the time of the flood, and in the generations after the flood. For Noah lived till the fifty-eighth year of Abraham.30, Chap. I. Noah was 600 at the time of the flood. Shem begat Arpachshad two years after the flood. From Arpachshad’s birth to Abraham’s birth was 290 years. Noah lived to be 950. Thus Abraham was 58 when Noah died. Let this be a mnemonic device, our father Abraham was the age of Noah (58)31 (nun, chet) is numerically equivalant to 58. Hence ben Noah means 58 years old. Abraham was the age Noah (58) when Noah died. when Noah died.