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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 6:11/אבן עזרא על במדבר ו׳:י״א
אאחד לחטאת ואחד לעולה. והסוד שהוא שאמרו חז"ל ושכר עבירה עבירה:
1ONE FOR A SIN-OFFERING AND THE OTHER FOR A BURNT-OFFERING. Its secret was explained by the sages. They said that the reward of sin is sin.27 4:2. I.E.’s point is that the Nazirite must have been guilty of some sin for uncleanliness to have befallen him during his period of Naziriteship (Filwarg).
בעל הנפש. הוא על נפש מת כמו ושרט לנפש ואילו היה שחטא על נפשו לא היה השם מצוה אותו שיחזור לחטאתו:
2FOR THAT HE SINNED BY REASON OF THE BODY.28. J.P.S. renders it as dead. The reference is to a dead body. Compare the word nefesh (body) in Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for a body (Lev. 19:28).29. J.P.S. renders it as the dead. If the sin referred to a sin committed against his very own body,30 19:a; Nedarim 10:2. then Scripture would not command him to return to his sin.31