Tafsiran Keluaran 10:6: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Ramban, Kli Yakar & Or HaChaim

“He turned and left Pharaoh’s presence” [10:6]. Moses angrily went out from Pharaoh. He had warned him about the plague of locusts, expecting that they would discuss sending out Israel. The locusts were greatly feared in Pharaoh’s eyes. They would eat up all the grain on the ground. Therefore, Pharaoh immediately sent for Moses and Aaron that they should return to him. Pharaoh’s servants said to him: how long will this people Israel be an evil to us, that God afflicts us with all of these plagues? Pharaoh immediately sent for Moses and Aaron and said to them. Go and worship your God, but tell me who will go. Moses said: we must all go, women and children, since we have a holiday. This is Shavuot, that we have a holiday to receive the Torah. Pharaoh responded: what will the children do? Let the men go, since you said, to bring a sacrifice. The men bring the sacrifice and not the women or children. I see that you want to run away into the wilderness. It will be bad for you. I see a star in the wilderness that relates to you. This only means blood that you will die in the wilderness. This star is called evil, because it causes much evil for people. In truth, Pharaoh did see a star of blood over Israel. This means that Israel afterwards in the wilderness, the star alluded to the Golden Calf. They were supposed to have been destroyed because of that sin, but Moses prayed. Then the Holy One changed the blood into the blood of circumcision that Israel performed in the wilderness. Joshua said that Israel should be given the land of Israel. Therefore, Moses says in his prayer, “Let not the Egyptians say, it was with evil intent that he delivered them” [Exodus, 32:12]. That is to say, the Egyptians will say that You, God, took Israel out of Egypt in order to destroy them with the star that is called evil. Thus, all Your wonders and signs that You performed in Egypt will be forgotten and will be meaningless.⁵Rashi, Exodus, 10:10; Bahya, Exodus, 10:10. Pharaoh chased Moses out of his house.

AND HE TURNED AND WENT OUT FROM PHARAOH. Due to the fact that the Egyptians were in a state of trepidation during the plague of hail, Moses thought that now too they would fear lest they die from famine if they lose the residue of that which is escaped,¹⁸Verse 5. which remained to them. Therefore he went out without the king’s permission before they accepted or rejected his request, so that they might take counsel on the matter. This was indeed correct, for so the servants did and said to Pharaoh, Knowest thou not yet that Egypt is destroyed?²⁴Verse 7. In the words of our Rabbis:²⁵Shemoth Rabbah 13:5. “Moses saw the servants turning to each other, believing in his words, so he went out from there in order that they may take counsel to do repentance.”
The correct interpretation appears to me to be that Moses did so every time he came to Pharaoh’s palace; he warned him and went out. Scripture found it necessary to mention it only here because of the sequel: And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh.²⁶Verse 8.

“And they shall fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and the houses of all Egypt.” Without doubt, the king’s house is more inner than the houses of all his servants, and the houses of all his servants are more inner than the houses of all Egypt. So how would the locusts enter first into the innermost areas and only afterward to the head of all streets? Rather, certainly this was done miraculously, because the punishment matched the sin. For he [Pharaoh] began the corruption first, and afterward his servants, because without doubt the sin was attributed more to him than to his servants, and more to his servants than to all his people, as Rashi explains regarding the frogs (7:28) where it says And they shall ascend and come into your house, etc., and into the houses of your servants and your people. And perhaps about this reversed order it says there was no locust like it before, meaning there could have been locusts like it, but not in this reversed order that was contrary to the way of the world.