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ויהושע בן נון וכלב בן יפנה מן התרים, and Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Yefuneh who had been part of the team that toured the land, etc. Who did not know that these two had been part of the team? Why did the Torah have to mention this? The reason is that the Torah wanted to justify that these two men rent their garments in grief over what their colleagues had done. Some of the Israelites might have seen such an action as something presumptuous seeing that none of the elders had seen fit to rend their clothing. The Torah therefore had to tell us that the reason that Joshua and Caleb rent their garments was not that they felt superior to the elders, etc., but that they had experienced the beauty of the land of Canaan, something even Moses had not seen with his own eyes. They had greater reason to mourn what they stood to lose than anybody else. They also hoped to lend emphasis to their feeling of disgust that their colleagues had despised the land of Canaan by publicly rending their garments in the sight of all the Israelites. This was the most potent protest against what the ten spies had said that they could think of.

V. 6. ויהושע וגו׳. Hier, in קריעה, in dem Schmerzgefühl um Mosche, um das gänzliche Scheitern seiner Sendung und um die verhängnisvolle Verirrung des Volkes, steht Josua voran. קרעו בגדיהם, sie hatten sofort, als sie sahen, welchen Gang die Ereignisse nahmen, im Gegensatz zu ihren Gefährten ihre Kleider zerrissen.