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La'asot meaning "to prepare food"
The question is answered by looking at the context of the expression.
Specifically, Bereshit 18:7-8, which says:
ואל הבקר רץ אברהם ויקח בן בקר רך וטוב ויתן אל הנער וימהר לעשות אתו
ויקח חמאה וחלב ובן ...
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La'asot meaning "to prepare food"
Netziv on Bereshis 18:7 uses the word La'osos as an incomplete work done by Abraham, which afterwards was finished by Ishmael. This is explained by R. Mordechai Kuperman in comment 41 (also ...
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Have known him OR to have made him known
Grammatically יְדַעְתִּיו means - יָדַעְתִּי אֹתוֹ - I knew him. One can understand the phrase כִּי יְדַעְתִּיו based on terminology adopted by Malbim Sefer haCarmel, where ידע - yad'a means ...
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