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Ramban on Numbers 26:64/רמב"ן על במדבר כ״ו:ס״ד
אוּבְאֵלֶּה לֹא הָיָה אִישׁ מִפְּקוּדֵי מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן הַכֹּהֵן כִּי יְהוֹשֻׁעַ וְכָלֵב לֹא הָיוּ עַתָּה בַּפְּקוּדִים הָאֵלּוּ, לְפִי שֶׁהָיוּ מִשִּׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה וָמַעְלָה, וְאֵין הַמִּנְיָן אֶלָּא מִבֶּן עֶשְׂרִים עַד בֶּן שִׁשִּׁים שָׁנָה, כִּי הֵם עִקַּר יְמֵי הָאִישׁ כָּעִנְיָן הָאָמוּר בָּעֲרָכִין (ויקרא כז ג), וְאָז הוּא יוֹצֵא צָבָא בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל, לֹא מִשִּׁשִּׁים וָמַעְלָה כְּדִבְרֵי רַבּוֹתֵינוּ (ב״ב קכא). אֲבָל אָמַר וְלֹא נוֹתַר מֵהֶם אִישׁ כִּי אִם כָּלֵב בֶּן יְפֻנֶּה וִיהוֹשֻׁעַ בֶּן נוּן, שֶׁהָיוּ מִן הַפְּקוּדִים הָרִאשׁוֹנִים וְלֹא מֵתוּ:
1BUT AMONG THESE THERE WAS NOT A MAN OF THEM THAT WERE NUMBERED BY MOSES AND AARON THE PRIEST. For Joshua and Caleb [who were amongst those who were numbered at the first census] were not [included] now in this census, because they were over sixty years old, and the census was only of [people] aged between twenty and sixty, which [years] are the principal ones of a man’s life, similar to that which is stated in [the law of] Valuations,156 and it is then [in those years] that he goes forth to war in Israel,157 and not after the age of sixty, as our Rabbis have said.153 But when Scripture says [in the following verse], And there was not left a man ‘of them,’ save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun [the words “of them” do not refer to those who were numbered now in the wilderness of Sinai, but to] them that were numbered at the first [census] and did not die [in the wilderness, since Caleb and Joshua, being over sixty years old, were not numbered now in this second census].