“These are the names of the men which Moses sent to spy out the land. And Moses called Oshea the son of Nun Jehoshua.”
These are the names of the men Moses sent to explore the land. (Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.) — the parenthetical note marks the significance of the name change: Joshua (Yehoshua) becomes the name of salvation, the one through whom salvation will come to Israel when faithlessness has spent forty years in the wilderness.
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