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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 2:21/אבן עזרא על דברים ב׳:כ״א
אוישמידם ה'. ספר הכתוב כי השם השמיד אחרים מפני המואבים ונתן להם הארץ לירושה כהר שעיר לעשו:
1BUT THE LORD DESTROYED THEM. Scripture relates that God destroyed a people on behalf of the Moabites19 means on behalf of the Moabites. The previous verse mentions the Amonites. Hence I.E. points out that them in our verse refers to the Moabites. and gave them the land as an inheritance, as he did with Mount Seir on behalf of Esau.