Commentary for Sotah 69:10

ולא היא כי הוו מברי אבילי תותי ארזי הוו מברי וכי חזינהו סלקו יתבי באילני שמעי דקאמרי קחזינן אינשי דדמו לקמצי באילני

R. Mesharsheya said: The spies were liars. As regards 'we were in our own sight as grasshoppers', very well; but how could they know that 'so we were in their sight'? But it is not so;<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The spies did not lie in this matter. ');">¹⁹</span> for when [the inhabitants] held their funeral-meal<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' After burying the dead, as mentioned above. ');">²⁰</span>

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