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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 6:13/אבן עזרא על במדבר ו׳:י״ג
אמלאת. שם הפועל מבעלי האל"ף על מנהג בעלי הה"א באחרונה וכמוהו לבלתי קראת לנו:
1FULFILLED. Melot (fulfilled) is an infinitive. Its final root letter is an alef.33. It is conjugated like a word that has a heh as a final root letter.34. Words that end in an alef end in an o in the infinitive. Thus the infinitive of mem, lamed, alef should be melo. It is like the word kero’ot (call)35, but whose infinitive form follows the paradigm of a word ending in a heh. in that thou didst call us (Jud. 8:1).
ביביא אותו. יביא נפשו כמו וירעו הרועים אותם או יביא הכהן אותו בצווי בעל כרחו להקריב את קרבנו:
2HE SHALL BRING IT.36. Oto can mean him or it. I.E. renders our phrase, he shall bring him. Yavi oto (he shall bring it) means he37 shall bring himself.38 (him) here has the meaning of himself. Compare, but the shepherds fed themselves (Ezek. 34:8).39). However, in order to makes sense of the verse we must render otam as themselves. Similarly, oto (him) in our verse is to be rendered as himself. Or yavi oto means that the kohen shall bring him40 against his will by commanding that he be forced to bring his sacrifice.