But Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive: See verse 30. But renders well the Hebrew waw conjunction, which introduces a contrast here. Joshua and Caleb were the only spies that were not killed by the plague since they disagreed with the false report of the other spies.

Of those men who went to spy out the land: See 13.2. Good News Translation says simply “Of the twelve spies.”

Quoted with permission from de Regt, Lénart J. and Wendland, Ernst R. A Handbook on Numbers. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2016. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .