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Ramban on Numbers 28:20/רמב"ן על במדבר כ״ח:כ׳

אוְטַעַם שְׁלֹשָׁה עֶשְׂרֹנִים לַפָּר – לְכָל פַּר מֵהֶם, וְכֵן ״שְׁלֹשָׁה עֶשְׂרֹנִים לַפָּר הָאֶחָד״ (במדבר כ״ח:כ״ח) - לְכָל הָאֶחָד מֵהֶם. וְלַכֶּבֶשׂ הָאֶחָד (במדבר כ״ח:כ״א) יְלַמֵּד עָלָיו בְּאָמְרוֹ עִשָּׂרוֹן עִשָּׂרוֹן, וְעוֹד יְפָרֵשׁ לְשִׁבְעַת הַכְּבָשִׂים. וְכֵן זֶה לַפָּר הָאֶחָד - לִשְׁנֵי הַפָּרִים. אֲבָל פַּעַם יְקַצֵּר הַכָּתוּב בְּדָבָר הַמּוּבָן, כִּי בְּיָדוּעַ שֶׁלֹּא יִהְיוּ שְׁלֹשָׁה עֶשְׂרֹנִים לַפָּר הָאֶחָד וְלֹא יִהְיֶה לַשֵּׁנִי כְּלוּם. וִיפָרֵשׁ בַּכְּבָשִׂים שֶׁהֵן מְרֻבִּין, וְכָל שֶׁכֵּן בַּפָּרִים. וּבְסֻכּוֹת שֶׁהַפָּרִים מְרֻבִּין, יְפָרֵשׁ בָּהֶן "לִשְׁלֹשָׁה עָשָׂר פָּרִים" (במדבר כ״ט:י״ד):

1THREE TENTH-PARTS SHALL YE OFFER FOR ‘A BULLOCK’ — that is, for each of the [two] bullocks, [mentioned in the preceding verse]. Similarly, three tenth-parts for ‘the one bullock’²⁰⁶, 29:14. means for each one of the [thirteen] bullocks [mentioned in the preceding verse]. And [the expression in the following Verse 21] for the one lamb shows us [the meaning of] this [phrase — for ‘a bullock,’ in Verse 20 before us], since it says [there in Verse 21], ‘isaron isaron’ [literally: ‘a tenth-part, a tenth-part’ shalt thou offer for ‘the one lamb’ — thus indicating clearly that this amount of the meal-offering is for each of the Iambs; and here too the amount stated is for each of the bullocks and rams]. Scripture further states explicitly [in Verse 21]: for every lamb of the seven lambs. So here too, for ‘a bullock’ means for [each of] the two bullocks. Scripture, however, sometimes speaks briefly in a matter which is self-understood, for it is obvious that there are not three tenth-parts [of an ephah offered up] for one bullock, whilst the second one has none [at all]. And [the reason why] He stated explicitly [in the following Verse 21] in connection with the lambs [that the meal-offering specified is for each one of the lambs], is because they are many [i.e., seven], and it follows all the more so in the [case of the] bullocks [mentioned here in Verse 20 that the meal-offering specified there is to be offered up for each of the two bullocks]. And in [speaking about the first day of] the Festival of Tabernacles, when the bullocks were more [than on any other festival], He explains three tenth-parts for the one bullock of the thirteen bullocks.²⁰⁶, 29:14.