For a new era in human history, new people are required, which means that the old ones must — at some point — step aside.

The tale of the spies reveals itself to be a kind of Jewish archetype — one which echoes throughout Jewish history in ever new iterations with subtly evolving significance. 

The relationship between law and narrative is complex — but it is not a relationship of dominance — one does not bend to the other.

Regarding the Passover sacrifice, God institutes the holiday of Pesach Sheni (“Second Passover”) to be observed on the fourteenth of Iyar by those who were unable to participate in the first Passover due to impurity or because they were traveling far from Jerusalem at the time.