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Ibn Ezra on Leviticus 8:22/אבן עזרא על ויקרא ח׳:כ״ב

אויקרב את האיל השני איל המלואים ויסמכו אהרן ובניו. ובכתוב הראשון וסמך אהרן ובניו והנה אין הפרש בין וסמך אהרן ובניו ובין ויסמכו אהרן ובניו כי מדקדק גדול טעה שאמר כי טעם וסמך הוא לבדו ואחר כן בניו וסמכו כלם יחד:

1AND THE OTHER RAM WAS PRESENTED, THE RAM OF CONSECRATION, AND AARON AND HIS SONS LAID (VA-YISMEKHU) THEIR HANDS. The first verse reads, and Aaron and his sons laid²⁵) Aaron and his sons. (ve-samakh) (v. 14).²⁶ Note, contra a great grammarian who erred, there is no difference between ve-samakh²⁷, for he is referring to verse 14. Va-samakh is the reading in Ex. 29:10; 19 where the laws of the consecration were first given. aron u-vanav (and Aaron and his sons laid) (v. 14) and va-yismekhu aron u-vanav (and Aaron and his sons laid). The grammarian said that ve-samakh indicates that Aaron alone shall lay hands, and then his sons.²⁸ Vesamekhu²⁹ (and they laid). means, and they shall all lay together.