English: “This people to your people.” It should have said “your people to this people”! R. Abba bar Kahana said: Like a person who curses himself and hangs his curse on others.
Type of Learning
Syntactic inversion exposing euphemized counsel of harm.
What Is Learned
Bilam’s advice about Moavite women is phrased as what Israel will do to Moav — he hangs the shame on the other side.