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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 4:13/אבן עזרא על במדבר ד׳:י״ג
אודשנו. הסרת הדשן מעל המזבח:
1AND THEY SHALL TAKE AWAY THE ASHES. It means, and they shall take away the ashes from the altar.25 means ashes. Thus ve-dishenu literally means, and they shall ash. This might be taken to mean, and they shall put on ashes. Hence I.E.’s interpretation that ve-dishenu means, and they shall remove the ashes.