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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 23:11/אבן עזרא על במדבר כ״ג:י״א
אמשפט הלשון להקדים שם הפועל בלשון עבר ועתיד ובצווי הדבר הפוך ויש מלות זרות כמו ברכת ברך ובא בא (ושטף ועבר):
1[THOU HAST BLESSED THEM ALTOGETHER.] It is normal usage to place the infinitive first in the perfect and then the imperfect.61 The reverse is true in the imperative.62 However, there are irregular phrases such as u-verakhta barekh63) comes last. (thou hast blessed them altogether) (Num. 24:10); and yava vo64) comes last. (and he shall come on) in and he shall come on, and overflow, as he passeth through (Dan. 11:1).