Commentaire de citation sur Le Deutéronome 28:68

and His words He did not retract What He said, “And the Lord shall take you back to Egypt in ships” (Deut. 28:68). This is payment in kind, for I said to you, “You shall no longer see it (ibid.),” and you went there of your own free will. Eventually, you shall go there in exile against your will.

Had He split the Sea for us, and not led us through it on dry land, it would have been enough: Isn’t the whole miracle at the Red Sea that God split the sea and allowed us to cross through the sea? One doesn’t make much sense without the other. So how can we say that it would have been enough for God to have split the sea and not brought us through it? In Deuteronomy 28:68 we learn that there were other ways that God could have brought the Israelites through the Red Sea that did not involve dry ground, “And the Lord shall bring you back to Egypt by ships...” Rather than bring Israel through the sea in a natural fashion, God split the sea and allowed them to cross “on dry ground.” For this we give special thanks to God. Another explanation for this verse of “Dayyenu” is that the miracle was not only that God split the sea and allowed them to cross through the middle of the sea, but God did so “on dry ground.” Even though God split the sea, one would have expected the earth beneath the Red Sea to at least be damp and muddy. Yet God made the sea bed completely dry, thus increasing the miracle of the splitting of the Red Sea even more!

This is as it is written, etc.: That which is written in the Torah (Deuteronomy 28:68), "and no one will buy [you]" - Haman decreed that no person be allowed to purchase them as a slave.

You have sold yourself. You sold yourself to anger your Creator,⁵You made yourself like a stranger. Achov went so far as to erase God’s Name from the Torah and he replaced it with Baal’s name throughout.—Radak התמכרת [=you have sold yourself], as in, “and there you will attempt to sell yourselves [והתמכרתם] to your enemies.”⁶Devarim 28:68.