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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 9:15/אבן עזרא על במדבר ט׳:ט״ו
אוביום הקים את המשכן. החל לספור מסעי ישראל הוצרך להזכיר הענן שחנה על המשכן כי בחנותו יחנו ובנסעם יסעו:
1AND ON THE DAY THAT THE TABERNACLE WAS REARED UP. Scripture begins to count the journeys of Israel. It was thus compelled to make mention of the cloud that rested on the tabernacle, for when it camped they camped and when it journeyed8. 38. Our texts read, when they journeyed, they journeyed. they journeyed.
בלאהל העדות. על אהל ורבים כן:
2EVEN THE TENT OF THE TESTIMONY. Le-ohel (even the tent) is to be rendered, on the tent.9 usually has the meaning of to. Hence I.E.’s comment. I.E. renders our verse, the cloud covered the tabernacle, on the tent of the testimony. There are many such instances in Scripture.