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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 14:14/אבן עזרא על במדבר י״ד:י״ד
אאשר עין בעין. על הכבוד שראו הזקנים או על מראה כבוד ה' לעיני בני ישראל והוא הנכון:
1ART SEEN FACE TO FACE. The reference is to the glory which the elders saw (Ex. 24:9,10), or to the appearance of the glory of the Lord…in the eyes of the children of Israel (Ex. 24:17). The latter is correct.
בנראה. פעל עבר וטעמו נראת אתה ה' וכן ונאשאר אני וכן כי אומלל אני בעבור היות הלמ"ד בפת"ח גדול:
2ART SEEN. The word nirah (seen) is a verb in the perfect.15 The meaning of attah Adonai nirah is, Thou Lord were seen.16) is combined with the third person perfect (nirah) we follow the pronoun. Ve-nishar17 is a third person perfect. ani (and I was left) (Ezek. 9: 8) is similar.18 So is ki umlal19 is a third person perfect. ani20 is a first person pronoun. (for I languish away) (Ps. 6:3), because the lamed of umlal is vocalized with a pattach.21 indicates that umlal is a third person perfect. However, see I.E. on Psalms 6:3.
געמד עליהם. בשבתם:
3STANDETH OVER THEM. When they camp.