CALEB (=Dog) , EFRAT'S MAN
Everett Fox's translation
Calev hushed the people ... and said:
Let us go up, yes, up, and possess it,
for we can prevail, yes, prevail against it!
But the men who went up with him said;
We are not able to go up against the population,
for it is stronger than we!
...The land that we crossed through to scout it out:
it is a land that devours its inhabitants;
all the people that we saw in its midst are men of (great)
stature,
(for) there we saw the giants - the children of Anak (come)
from the giants -
... we were in our (own) eyes like grasshoppers,
and thus were we in their eyes!
[Nu
13:30-33: ] in Everett Fox' translation]
Of course, the entire
community cries and just wants to head back and return to
Egypt.
Now Yehoshua son of Nun and Calev
son of Yefunne,
(alone) from among those who scouted out the land,
ripped their garments;
they said to the entire community of the Children of Israel,
saying:
The land that we crossed through, to scout it out ---
good is that land, exceeding! exceedingly!
.. do not be afraid of the people of the land...
do not be afraid of them.
But the entire community of Israel thought to pelt them with
stones....
[Nu
14:6-10 ]
God intervenes, says that nobody
of this generation will see the new land.
But as for my servant, Calev,
because there was another spirit in him,
and he followed-me fully,
so I will bring him into the land that he is about to enter
and his seed will possess it.
[[Nu
14:24]
This
is a classical example of projecting
See my book: Second
Part , 4th chapter, b) The solidarity and responsibility of
the individual
[English
summary : II.4 The Sages' formulated thought on solidarity