Talmud sobre Números 8:17

And it came to pass at midnight, that the Lord smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt,²Ex. 12, 29. etc.; and it is written, For all the first-born among the children of Israel are Mine, both men and beast; on the day that I smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, I sanctified them for Myself.³Num. 8, 17. R. Joḥanan said: Although He smote them with the plague of death at midnight, the souls writhed within them until morning. A common proverb says, ‘If you give a morsel of bread to a child, inform his mother’.⁴Cf. Beẓah 16a (Sonc. ed., p. 81) where it is quoted, not as a proverb, but as a saying of Rabban Simeon b. Gamaliel. Likewise, the Holy One, blessed be He, said, ‘I will inform My children of the death by choking⁵GRA’s emendation of a verb in the text meaning ‘which silences’. of which their enemies are dying. Let their souls await the morning [before expiring], so that My children shall look upon [the fate of] their enemies’.