Midrash su Esodo 11:24
Sefer HaYashar (midrash)
And when the days of darkness were over, the Lord sent Moses to the children of Israel, saying: Celebrate ye your feast and prepare your passover, for behold I will come at midnight in the midst of the Egyptians, and I will slay all their first born, from the first born of man to the first born of beast, and when I will see your passover I will pass over you; and the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord had commanded unto Moses. And at midnight the Lord passed through Egypt, and he slew all the first born of the Egyptians, from the first born of man to the first born of beast; and Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great crying in Egypt; for there was not one house where there was not one dead; and even the likenesses of the first born, which were engraved upon the walls of their houses, fell broken to the ground, and the bones of their first born, which had died before and lay buried in their houses, were raked up by the dogs of Egypt in that night, and dragged about before the eyesight of the Egyptians. And when the Egyptians saw the great evil which had befallen them so suddenly, they cried with a loud voice, so that all the families of Egypt were weeping in that night, one for his son and one for his daughter, their first born, and the consternation and noise of Egypt resounded in the distance on that night. And Bathia, Pharaoh’s daughter, went forth with the king in search of Moses, and they found him eating and drinking and rejoicing with all the Israelites, and Bathia said unto Moses: Shall this be the reward for my kindness towards thee, for raising and elevating thee, that thou bringest now upon me and upon the house of my father this evil? And Moses answered unto her: Behold the Lord hath brought ten plagues over Egypt, and hath ever one annoyed thee? And she said: No. And Moses said: Behold, although thou art the first born of thy mother thou shalt not die, neither shall any evil befall thee. And she replied: Of what good is that to me after I see my brother, the king, and all the household of my father, and all his servants in that great evil, for their first born perish with all the first born of Egypt? And Moses said unto her: Surely, thy brother and his household and his servants, the families of Egypt refused to listen to the words of God and therefore this evil hath come over them.
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