Talmud Bavli
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Commentary for Megillah 4:9

אי הוה כתב את יום ארבעה עשר וחמשה עשר כדקאמרת השתא דכתיב את יום ארבעה עשר ואת יום חמשה עשר אתא את ופסיק הני בארבעה עשר והני בחמשה עשר

the text had said, “the fourteenth day and the fifteenth” you would have been right. Now, however, that it is written “the fourteenth day and [ve’et] the fifteenth — the et comes and makes a distinction, so that the one set is on the fourteenth and the other set on the fifteenth.

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