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רמב"ן — ויעש אהרן ובניו את כל הדברים אשר צוה ה' ביד משה

The closing pasuk of Tzav reports compliance with an unusual phrasing: 'ויעש אהרן ובניו את כל הדברים אשר צוה ה' ביד משה.' The standard formula in such reports is 'כאשר צוה ה' את משה' (e.g. Mishkan-completion). Why the change here?

יאמר בכל מקום 'כאשר צוה ה' ביד משה', אבל בכאן מפני שהוסיפו על המצוה לא אמר כן, כי לא עשו כאשר צוה ה' את משה, אבל עשו כל הדברים אשר צוה ה' ועוד נוסף עליהם מה שאמר באש זרה אשר לא צוה אותם.

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רמב"ן על ויקרא ח׳:ל״ו

Ramban on Leviticus 8:36

Tzav

Q — The closing pasuk of Tzav reports compliance with an unusual phrasing: 'ויעש אהרן ובניו את כל הדברים אשר צוה ה' ביד משה.' The standard formula in such reports is 'כאשר צוה ה' את משה' (e.g. Mishkan-completion). Why the change here?

A — Ramban: the change is a quiet foreshadow of the Nadav-Avihu tragedy in the next parsha. The Torah does not say 'they did as Hashem commanded Moshe' — only that 'they did all the things Hashem commanded.' That technically-true phrasing leaves room for what happened in the next chapter: Aharon's sons did all that was commanded — and added on their own initiative 'אש זרה אשר לא צוה אותם.' The closing pasuk is a literary fissure, prefiguring what comes. The chiddush is a sensitivity to ominous silences in Tanach's compliance formulas.

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