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Ibn Ezra on Leviticus 25:22/אבן עזרא על ויקרא כ״ה:כ״ב
אישן. שב על מן וטעמו כעצם וכן מן הכפרת תעשו את הכרובים:
1THE OLD STORE. The word yashan (the old store) adverts to the word min (of).103 (produce), which precedes it, for tevu’ah is feminine and yashan (old store) is masculine. I.E. says that min ha-tevu’ah yashan (of the produce, the old store) is to be interpreted as if written min yashan ha-tevu’ah (of the very old store of the grain). The meaning of min (of) is, of the very thing. Similarly, with (min) the ark-cover104 (min) the ark-cover shall ye make the cherubim as, of the very ark-cover shall ye make the cherubim shall ye make the cherubim (Ex. 25:19).