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Ibn Ezra on Numbers 32:30/אבן עזרא על במדבר ל״ב:ל׳
אונאחזו בתככם. חלק להם כבוד כי הטעם אם לא יעברו חלוצים תוליכום עמהם בעל כרחם ונאחזו או אם יתנחמו ונאחזו בתוככם ובאת זו המלה כמשפט בעלי היו"ד כי אותיות אהו"י מתחלפים:
1THEY SHALL HAVE POSSESSIONS AMONG YOU. He gave them respect,40 for the meaning of our verse is, if they41 will not go armed before you, then you shall force them to go with you and they shall have possessions among you.42 Or, if they change their minds, then they shall have possessions among you. The word ve-nochazu (they shall have possessions) follows the rules of a root that has a yod as its first letter,43 is vocalized as if it came from the root yod, chet zayin, when in reality its root is alef, chet, zayin. for the letters alef, heh, vav, and yod interchange.