וַיְצַ֥ו פַּרְעֹ֖ה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא אֶת־הַנֹּגְשִׂ֣ים בָּעָ֔ם וְאֶת־שֹׁטְרָ֖יו לֵאמֹֽר׃
Faraone comandò in quel giorno agli esattori [egiziani] deputati sul popolo, ed a’ suoi soprintentendenti [israeliti], con dire:
Who is the Heir of Divine Things
[255] And so it is Egypt which has its “task-drivers” (Ex. 5:6) who urge others to the enjoyment of the passions; it is Moses who bids eat the Passover and celebrate the crossing from passion “with haste” (Ex. 12:11). So too Judah, “for if we had not delayed, we should already have returned twice over” (Gen. 43:10). He does not mean “we should have gone down twice to Egypt,” but “we should have come up thence in safety.”