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Or HaChaim on Numbers 14:31/אור החיים על במדבר י״ד:ל״א
אוְטַפְּכֶם אֲשֶׁר וְגוֹ׳. לְצַד שֶׁאָמַר ״כַּאֲשֶׁר דִּבַּרְתֶּם בְּאָזְנָי כֵּן אֶעֱשֶׂה לָכֶם״, וְהֵם דִּבְּרוּ גַּם עַל טַפָּם רָעָה, לָזֶה בָּא ה׳ וְהוֹצִיאָם מֵהַכְּלָל וְאָמַר ״וְטַפְּכֶם וְגוֹ׳ וְהֵבֵאתִי״ וְגוֹ׳, וְאָמַר וְהֵבֵאתִי בְּתוֹסֶפֶת וָא״ו, לוֹמַר מִלְּבַד שֶׁלֹּא יִהְיוּ לָבַז אֶלָּא עוֹד לָהֶם טוֹבָה שֶׁיְּבִיאֵם ה׳ אֶל הָאָרֶץ וְגוֹ׳:
1 וטפכם אשר אמרתם לבז יהיה, "And as to your children of whom you said they will become prey, etc." Seeing that G'd had said He would do to the people in a manner corresponding to what they had said, and they had said that evil would befall their children if they listened to Caleb and Joshua, G'd now specifically exempts those children from the curse that they would not enter the Holy Land. The Torah adds the conjunctive letter ו in front of the word והבאתי אותם, "and I will bring them," to tell us that not only will these children not become prey, but they will inherit the land their parents should have inherited.