Numbers 13:31

13:31 But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against these people, because they are stronger than we are!”

Numbers 31:21

31:21 Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law that the Lord commanded Moses:


tn The vav (ו) disjunctive on the noun at the beginning of the clause forms a strong adversative clause here.