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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 14:34/אבן עזרא על במדבר י״ד:ל״ד
אאשר תרתם. בציווי:
1WHICH YE SPIED OUT. By command.57
באת תנואתי. אניא דברי או מי יניאני והטעם שישבור את שבועתי כמו ואם הניא:
2MY DISPLEASURE.58. I.E. renders this as my breaking. Hence his comments. I will break my word.59. 38 reads: If I will break My word. In this case, the reference is to God’s oath, which He took not to bring the generation that left Egypt into Canaan. In view of the belief of I.E. that God is unchangeable (see his comments on Gen. 6:6, Vol. 1, p. 96), the reading of Vat. Ebr. 38 appears correct. Or, it means60, My breaking. who shall break Me; that is, who shall break My oath.61 Compare, But if her father break (heni) her (Num 30:6).