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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 4:49/אבן עזרא על במדבר ד׳:מ״ט
אאיש איש. על גרשון קהת ומררי:
1EVERY ONE. The reference is to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.
בעל עבדתו ועל משאו. על כן ופקדיו. ונסמכו פרשת וישלחו מן המחנה בעבור היות השכינה בתוך המחנות בנסעם ובחנותם:
2TO HIS SERVICE, AND TO HIS BURDEN. Hence and his numbered44. The singular u-fekudav is employed because the terms which precede it (avodato, his service, and masa’o, his burden) are i n the singular. It should be noted that J.P.S. renders u-fekudav as they were also numbered. follows. The section put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by the dead (Num. 5:2) follows, because God’s presence was in the camps of Israel when they journeyed and when they rested.45