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 | | However, the crisis that surfaces upon their return is due precisely to the fact that this constituted not a standard, routine survey of territory, but rather a mission of a communal nature, that was composed in accordance with its nature and communal function. |
 | | After all, Moshe did not dispatch a small group of secret spies, but rather a delegation consisting of representatives from all the tribes, men whose tribes saw them as respected leaders, as the text itself testifies: "send one man from each of their ancestral tribes, each one a chieftain among them" (13:2). |
 | | In place of Nachshon, the senior chieftain of the tribe of Yehuda, came the younger leader, Kalev, and so with each of the twelve tribes. |
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