TO BE YOKED — the verb built on tsemed, a PAIR of draught animals harnessed together (Elisha ploughing behind twelve of them, Job's five hundred). ⭐ Searched across the archived text, the verb in this sense stands in Numbers 25:3 and 25:5, and in Psalm 106:28, which is a retelling of that same episode — so its whole biblical career is Israel being hitched to Baal-peor and one psalm remembering it. ⚠ Most of the shelf reads a joining rather than a harnessing (KJV, ASV 'joined himself'; NWT 1984 'attached itself'; RV 1909 «allegóse»), which loses the picture — though Geneva's 'coupled himself' comes close, the RV60 revised its ancestor's word to «acudió», and the Douay-Rheims reads a cultic INITIATION instead: not a people drifting into affection with a local god but a people putting its neck in a collar behind one. → first discussed at Num 25:3