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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 18:17/אבן עזרא על במדבר י״ח:י״ז
אלא תפדה כי קדש הם. לא תקח פדיונם ורבים פירשו שפדה לישראל והפך זה כל הבכור שאמר תאכלנו והסימן לכהן מי שהוא חייב לאכלו:
1THOU SHALT NOT REDEEM. For they are holy. You shall not accept their redemption money. Many say that the word redeem40 refers to the Israelite. He shall not buy back the animal from the kohen. See Filwarg and Weiser. refers to the Israelites. However,41 the reverse is true for the word tokhelunu (thou shalt eat it) (Deut. 15:20), in which the prefix thou refers to the kohen, for Thou shalt eat it refers to the one who is obligated to eat it.