Mesorat%20hashas for Taanit 57:6

אמר אביי תמוז דההיא שתא מלויי מליוה דכתיב (איכה א, טו) קרא עלי מועד לשבור בחורי

And it has been taught: Moses sent out spies on the twenty-ninth of Sivan. And it is further written, Add they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. 25.');">⁹</span> But is not this forty days less one?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' 29-30 Sivan; 1-29 Tammuz; 1-8 Ab (2 + 29 + 8 = 39) .');">¹⁰</span>

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