Why did the people add the (otherwise superfluous) word "Anachnu Na?aleh Venilchamnu??
Ramban: Following Moshe's statement (in Pasuk 39, that their children would enter the land and not them, they retorted that they would go and fight the Cana'anim and not their children.
What is the meaning of "Vatahinu"?
Rashi and Rashbam: 'And you availed yourselves to go up ... '. 1
Targum Onkelos and Targum Yonasan: 'And you began to ascend the mountain'.
Da'as Zekenim and Rosh: 'From a drop the Hin (a measure) was filled' - Our measure [of sin] was filled [after which we were punished] through a small matter; Hashem was angry with us for a small matter.
Rashi and Rashbam: Following the words of the people themselves (in Sh'lach-L'cha, Bamidbar 14:40) "Hinenu ve'Alinu".
