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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 27:3/אבן עזרא על במדבר כ״ז:ג׳
אוהוא לא היה. חשבו הבנות כי לא יירשו בני הנועדים על ה':
1AND HE WAS NOT AMONG THE COMPANY. The daughters1 thought that the children of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord2 would not inherit.3
בכי בחטאו מת. אמר ר' יהודה הלוי הספרדי כי פי' כי בחטאו מת דבק עם ובנים לא היו לו כאשר יאמר היום בעונותיו אירע לפלוני כך וכך ואיננו רחוק:
2BUT HE DIED IN HIS OWN SIN. Rabbi Judah Ha-Levi the Spaniard says but he died in his own sin is to be understood as connected to and he had no sons.4 It is as we say today, such and such occurred to so and so because of his sins. This interpretation is not far off.