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Ibn Ezra on Genesis 8:1/אבן עזרא על בראשית ח׳:א׳
אויזכור אלהים את נח גם בניו והנשים בכלל נח שהוא העיקר:
1AND GOD REMEMBERED NOAH. This includes his children and the women. Noah alone is mentioned because he was the most important of them.
בואת כל החיה. כלל לחית השדה ולעוף השמים ולכל שורץ על האדץ וטעם ויזכור, השבועה שנשבע לנח:
2AND EVERY LIVING THING. A general term for beasts of the field, fowl that fly, and for everything that swarms upon the earth.And God remembered means God remembered the oath that he had sworn to Noah.1
גויעבר אלהים רוח. העבירו תמיד:
3AND GOD MADE A WIND TO PASS OVER THE EARTH. The wind blew continuously.2
דוישכו המים. וינוחו ולא גברו וכן וחמת המלך שככה (אסתר ז י) ודגשות הכ"ף לחסרון העי"ן ושניהם מהבנין הקל:
4AND THE WATERS ASSUAGED. They rested and no longer prevailed. Then was the king’s wrath assuaged (Esther 7:10) is similar. Assuaged in our verse and in Esther is in the kal. However, in our verse the caf receives a dagesh to make up for the missing middle root letter.3. One caf is missing in va-yashokku (assuaged) in our verse, unlike in the Book of Esther, where all three radicals are present in assuaged (shakhakhah).