Commentary for Sanhedrin 138:20

בן ולא בת: תניא אמר רבי שמעון בדין הוא שתהא בת ראויה להיות כבן סורר ומורה

… and now lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 10. ');">³⁵</span> Now, how old was he when sent as a spy? Forty. Deduct fourteen, Bezaleel's age at the time,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Deduced from iii and iv. ');">³⁶</span> this leaves twenty-six [as Caleb's age at Bezaleel's birth]. Now, deduct two years for the three pregnancies; hence each must have begotten at the age of eight.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' i shews that Caleb was Bezaleel's great-grandfather, and iii and iv shew that he was twenty-six at Bezaleel's birth, within which three generations were born. ');">³⁷</span> A SON', BUT NOT A DAUGHTER. It has been taught: R. Simeon said, Logically, a daughter should come within the scope of a 'stubborn and rebellious child',

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