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Ramban on Exodus 34:15/רמב"ן על שמות ל״ד:ט״ו
אוְאָכַלְתָּ מִזִּבְחוֹ כְּסָבוּר אַתָּה שֶׁאֵין עֹנֶשׁ בַּאֲכִילָתוֹ, וַאֲנִי מַעֲלֶה עָלֶיךָ כְּמוֹדֶה בַּעֲבוֹדָתָהּ. לְשׁוֹן רַשִׁ"י (רש"י על שמות ל"ד:ט"ו). וַאֲנִי אוֹמֵר עַל דַּעַת רַבּוֹתֵינוּ (ב"ק עא:, חולין מ:) שֶׁזּוֹ אַזְהָרָה בְּאוֹכֵל תִּקְרֹבֶת ע"ז, שֶׁהֵם אָמְרוּ שֶׁאָסוּר הוּא מִן הַתּוֹרָה, וְלֹא מָצִינוּ בּוֹ אֶלָּא זֶה. וְכֵן מַשְׁמָעוֹ, פֶּן תִּכְרֹת בְּרִית לְיוֹשֵׁב הָאָרֶץ וְזָנוּ אַחֲרֵי אֱלֹהֵיהֶם, כִּי יִזְבְּחוּ לָהֶם תָּמִיד, וּפֶן יִקְרָא לְךָ וְאָכַלְתָּ מִזִּבְחוֹ אֲשֶׁר יִזְבַּח לֵאלֹהָיו בִּזְנוֹתוֹ אַחֲרָיו, וּפֶן תִּקַּח מִבְּנוֹתָיו לְבָנֶיךָ (שמות ל"ד:ט"ז) וְהִנֵּה כֻּלָּן אַזְהָרוֹת נִמְשָׁכוֹת בַּלָּאו הָרִאשׁוֹן שֶׁאָמַר פֶּן תִּכְרֹת בְּרִית:
1AND THOU EAT OF THEIR SACRIFICE. “You might think that there is no punishment for eating thereof, but I will account it to you as if you agreed to its idolatrous worship.” This is Rashi’s language.525 But I say in accordance with the opinion of our Rabbis that this constitutes an admonition against eating of the sacrifices to idols, which they said526 is forbidden by law of the Torah, and we find no verse concerning it except this one. And the following is the meaning of the verse: “Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they go astray after their gods, for they will always be sacrificing to them, and lest they call thee and thou eat of their sacrifice, which he will sacrifice to his gods in his going astray after them, and lest thou take of their daughters unto thy sons.” Thus they are all admonitions following the first prohibition, concerning which He said, lest thou make a covenant.527