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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 5:17/אבן עזרא על במדבר ה׳:י״ז
אמים קדשים. מהכיור כי כבר נקדשו:
1HOLY WATER. From the basin, for it has already become holy.41
בבקרקע. ידוע תחת הקרקע:
2ON THE FLOOR OF THE TABERNACLE. The reference is to the well-known floor.42 (dust) has a definite article before it, a heh with a segol beneath it. Hence I.E.’s comment. The word afar (dust) has a definite article before it. It refers to the earth which is beneath the floor.43 (in the dust) refers to the earth which is beneath the floor of a certain spot in the tabernacle. See Mishnah Sotah 2:2.