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Ibn Ezra on Deuteronomy 28:53/אבן עזרא על דברים כ״ח:נ״ג
אואכלת פרי בטנך. במצור:
1AND THOU SHALT EAT THE FRUIT OF THINE OWN BODY. During the siege.
ביציק לך. כל אחד מאויבך או הוא כן בעבור היותו בסוף:
2SHALL STRAITEN THEE. Each one of your enemies.83 (shall straiten) is in the singular. Oyevekha (thine enemies) is in the plural. According to I.E. when a verb in the singular governs a noun in the plural, the verb refers to each one within the plural. Or the word oyevekha is so vocalized84 rather than oyivkha. because it comes at the end of a verse.85 is really a singular. Our text should thus be rendered, wherewith thine enemy shall straiten thee.