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Sforno on Numbers 14:34/ספורנו על במדבר י״ד:ל״ד

אבְּמִסְפַּר הַיָּמִים. שֶׁהֶאֱרִיכוּ בִּמְצַוַּתְכֶם לִרְאוֹת אִם אֶפְשָׁר לְכָבְשָׁהּ.
1במספר הימים, we have a rule in halachah that שלוחו של אדם כמותו that when one appoints someone to act on one’s behalf the appointee is regarded as an extension of the one who appointed him. The spies had therefore not acted on their own, but as the people’s agents. Hence Moses, i.e. G’d, addresses the people as the instigators of this disaster. Their initial sin had consisted in wanting to find out if the land could be conquered.
ביוֹם לַשָּׁנָה. תִּשְׁעָה בְּאָב שֶׁל כָּל שָׁנָה, כַּמְבֹאָר בְּתַעֲנִית בַּתְרָא (תענית ל).
2יום לשנה, on a specific day each year, i.e. the ninth of Av, according to the sages in Taanit 30.
גתְּנוּאָתִי. תַּכִּירוּ מַה רַע בִּטּוּל הַמְכֻוָּן שֶׁלִּי בְּסוּרְכֶם מִמֶּנּוּ, כְּאָמְרוֹ (במדבר יד:מג) ״וּנְפַלְתֶּם בַּחֶרֶב כִּי עַל כֵּן שַׁבְתֶּם מֵאַחֲרֵי ה׳״.
3תנואתי; you will find out what it means to try and thwart My plans. (a reference to verse 43 when this “self-fulfilling “ prediction came true.).