Reference for Bava Batra 238:5

(במדבר כז, ב) ותעמדנה לפני משה ולפני אלעזר הכהן ולפני הנשיאים וכל העדה אפשר עמדו לפני משה כו' ולא אמרו להן דבר ועמדו לפני הנשיאים וכל העדה

And it was made clear to him [that the text implies] both: 'It is an inheritance for you from your fathers; yet you would [only] transmit, and not [yourselves] inherit [it].' And this accounts for the Scriptural text, Thou bringest them in, and plantest them in the mountain of thine inheritance.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Ibid. XV, 17. ');">¹¹</span> It is not written, 'Thou bringest us in', but 'Thou bringest them in'; this teaches that they prophesied<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' That their descendants, and not they themselves, would enter the land. ');">¹²</span> and knew not what they prophesied.

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