Tafsiran yang Mengutip untuk Keluaran 5:10

WHEREFORE HAST THOU DEALT ILL WITH THIS PEOPLE? [It should be asked]: After G-d twice informed³⁴¹Above, 3:19 and 4:21. Moses that the king of Egypt would not let them go, why did he complain? Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra said that Moses had thought that from the moment he would speak to Pharaoh in the name of G-d, he would ease the burden from upon the children of Israel, and that G-d would begin to redeem them, but Pharaoh hardened and increased their woes. This is the sense of the expression, Wherefore has Thou dealt ill…? “It is the opposite of what Thou hast told me, i.e., I have surely seen the affliction of My people.³⁴²Ibid., 3:7. And I am come down to deliver them.”³⁴³Ibid., Verse 8. But this [explanation of Ibn Ezra] does not appear to me to be correct because [Moses said], Neither hast Thou delivered Thy people at all,³⁴⁴Verse 23. and “delivery” means only their going forth from exile.³⁴⁵How then could Ibn Ezra explain that Moses’ primary complaint was that he had thought G-d would merely ease their burden?
In my opinion, Moses our teacher thought G-d had told him that Pharaoh would not let them go immediately at his command, nor by sign and wonder until He would perform His many wonders among them. But Moses thought that G-d would bring them upon Pharaoh in uninterrupted succession in a few days. When Pharaoh said, I know not the Eternal,³⁴⁶Above, Verse 2. He would immediately command him to execute the sign of the serpent before the king, and [if] the king would still not listen, He would smite him on that very day with the plague of blood, followed by all the rest of the plagues. But when Moses saw that three days passed and the king increased their woes every day and G-d did not rebuke him, nor did He reveal Himself to Moses to inform him what he should do, then Moses thought that [the captivity] is a long one.³⁴⁷See Jeremiah 29:28.
It is possible that there was a long period of time to this story recounted here by Scripture. When the officers of the children of Israel were beaten,³⁴⁸Verse 14. days passed until they spoke to Pharaoh himself, saying to him, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants?³⁴⁹Verse 15. It is not every person that has a right to come into the inner chambers of the king’s palace and speak to him face to face, and all the more the officers of those people abhorrent to him. Thus they suffered in their burden and oppression many days, and they would come even before the king’s gate³⁵⁰Esther 4:2. until their outcry was heard before the king and he commanded that they come before him and speak with him. It is likewise possible that Moses returned to the Eternal and said, Wherefore hast Thou dealt ill…, many days after the officers of the children of Israel met him.³⁵¹Verse 20.
The Rabbis have said in V’eileh Shemoth Rabbah:³⁵²Shemoth Rabbah 5:23. “And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spoke to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh: I will not give you straw.³⁵³Verse 10. When this was decreed by Pharaoh, Moses went to Midian and stayed there six months while Aaron remained in Egypt. At that time, Moses took his wife and sons back to Midian.” The Rabbis have furthermore said:³⁵⁴Shemoth Rabbah 5:24. “And they met Moses and Aaron.³⁵¹Verse 20. After six months, the Holy One, blessed be He, revealed Himself to Moses in Midian and said to him, Go, return unto Egypt.³⁵⁵Above, 4:19. Moses then came from Midian, and Aaron from Egypt, when they were met by the officers of Israel as they came forth from Pharaoh.” I have furthermore seen a similar [tradition] in Midrash Chazit:³⁵⁶Shir Hashirim Rabbah 2:22. See Note 317 above. “My beloved is like a gazelle.³⁵⁷Song of Songs 2:9. Just as a gazelle appears [and hides] and reappears, so did the first redeemer, [i.e., Moses], appear to the children of Israel, then he disappeared, and then he appeared to them again. For how long was he away from them? Rabbi Tanchuma said three months. It is this which Scripture says, And they met Moses and Aaron.³⁵¹Verse 20. And Rabbi Yehudah Beribi³⁵⁸In the Midrash above: “Yehudah B’rabbi.” In the Hebrew text of Ramban: “And Rabbi Yehudah Br’.” But see Hyman’s Toldoth Tannaim V’amoraim that the correct reading is: “Rabbi Yehudah Beribi” or “Yudan Beribi”. said that [he was away from them] for periods of time.” That is to say, the word “meeting” — [and they ‘met’ Moses and Aaron] — indicates periods of time.
Thus many days passed between G-d’s speaking to Moses and Moses’ coming to Pharaoh. Therefore when Moses returned to G-d he said, “Wherefore hast Thou dealt ill with this people, hurrying to send me before the time [of redemption] had come? It was not fitting to send me until You wanted to deliver them, but now You have dealt ill with them and You have not delivered them. And if You deal thus with them, they will perish in the affliction that will come upon them.” Therefore G-d answered Moses at this time: “Soon shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh,³⁵⁹Further, 6:1. for I will not prolong it for him to the extent that you thought, and his time is near to come, and his days shall not be prolonged.”³⁶⁰See Isaiah 13:22.
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