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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 25:3/אבן עזרא על במדבר כ״ה:ג׳
אויצמד ישראל. מגזרת צמד בקר והטעם הנשים והנה נצמדו עמם לדת פעור:
1AND ISRAEL JOINED HIMSELF. The word va-yitzamed is related to the word tzemed (yoke) in a yoke of oxen (I Sam. 11:7). The reference is to the Moabite women; that is, Israel was joined with the women in the religion of pe’or.