Parashas Shelach · Side page (TT silent)
I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
Classic: the same offer as at the Golden Calf — destroy this people and rebuild from Moshe.
English: I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.
Offer to start anew from Moshe.
TT silent; the echo of the calf episode shows that the sin of the spies reaches the same severity of national rejection.