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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 11:12/אבן עזרא על במדבר י״א:י״ב
אהריתי. האני אמם:
1HAVE I CONCEIVED. Am I their mother?
ב. ילדתיהו. או אני אביהם כמו ילד את שלח:
2HAVE I BROUGHT THEM FORTH. Or am I their father? Yelidtihu (brought them forth) is like the word yalad (begot) in and Shelah begot Eber (Gen. 10:24).56
גשאהו. עד בואו אל האדמה:
3CARRY THEM. Until they come to the land.57. This literally means, carry them…upon the land. Hence I.E. points out that the word al here means unto, and al ha-adamah is to be rendered as unto the land.