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Ramban on Numbers 14:23/רמב"ן על במדבר י״ד:כ״ג
אוְטַעַם וְכָל מְנַאֲצַי לֹא יִרְאוּהָ – כִּי כָל מְנַאֲצַי לֹא יִרְאוּהָ. וְר״א אָמַר: ״כָּל מְנַאֲצַי" - מִבְּנֵיהֶם, וְאֵין בּוֹ טַעַם. וְאוּלַי יִרְמוֹז זֶה לַדּוֹרוֹת הַגּוֹלִים מִמֶּנָּה, כְּדִבְרֵי רַבּוֹתֵינוּ (תענית כט), וְכָאן קָבַע לָהֶם בְּכִיָּה לְדוֹרוֹת בַּלַּיְלָה הַזֶּה, שֶׁיִּזְכּוֹר לָהֶם עוֹנְשָׁם הָרִאשׁוֹן:
1NEITHER SHALL ANY OF THEM THAT PROVOKED ME SEE IT. This means “for none of them that provoked Me shall see it.”149 etc., the question arises why the same fact is repeated at the end of the same verse? Ramban answers that the second half is an explanation of the first half. And Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra commented: “any that provoked Me of their children,” but this [explanation] makes no sense. Perhaps this expression [neither shall any of them that provoked Me see it] alludes to the generations who were to be exiled from the Land [at the time of the destruction of the First Temple], as our Rabbis have said,150 and it is here that He fixed that night [of the ninth of Ab] as one of weeping throughout their generations, for [on that night] He will remember their first punishment.