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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 32:11/אבן עזרא על במדבר ל״ב:י״א

אלא מלאו. קל הלמ"ד והוא מהבנין הכבד מלא קרנך שמן לא השלימו מה שהתחילו:

1THEY HAVE NOT WHOLLY FOLLOWED ME. There is no dagesh in the lamed of mile’u (wholly followed). Mile’u is a pi’el.¹³ in it. Compare, malle (fill)¹⁴ is a pi’el and has a dagesh in it. See I.E.’s comments on verse 12. in fill thy horn with oil (I Sam. 16:1). They did not complete what they started.¹⁵ (because they have not wholly followed me).