출애굽기 6:1 미드라쉬: Midrash Tanchuma, Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Shemot Rabbah & Mekhilta DeRabbi Shimon Ben Yochai

However, on the very first mission I assigned to you, you asked Me, “What is your name?” and now you say: For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in Thy name, He hath dealt ill, etc. Therefore, Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh (Exod. 6:1). That is, you will participate in the struggle with Pharaoh, but you will not witness the war against the thirty-one kings, that Joshua, your disciple, will wage in vengeance against them.³Since the wars would be fought in the land of Israel, Moses would not participate in them. From this verse you may learn that Moses was punished by being forbidden to enter the land. Hence it is written: And God said unto Moses that He would requite him with Divine Justice. But He said unto him: “I am the Lord” (ibid., v. 2), thereby indicating that Divine Mercy demands that I redeem the Israelites and bring them into the land. Hence it is written: And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob as God Almighty (ibid., v. 3).

You find the Holy One, blessed be He, likewise said to Moses: Surely there shall not one of these men, even this evil generation, see the good land (Deut. 1:35). The word man alludes to Moses, as it is written: The man Moses was very meek (Num. 12:13). He was the man who was set apart from the other men (because he alone saw the Promised Land from afar). Similarly You said: And the man was an old man in the days of Saul, stricken in years among men (I Sam 17:12). And elsewhere it is stated: Now thou shalt see what I will do to Pharaoh (Exod. 6:1); that is, you will see the war that will be waged against Pharaoh, but you will not witness the wars against the thirty-one kings (after Israel enters the land). After Moses rebuked the people, saying: Hear now, ye rebels (Num. 20:10), the Holy One, blessed be He, informed him: Therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land (ibid., v. 12). Hence He acts circuitously in His doings toward the son of man (Ps. 66:5).

(Exod. 5:22–6:1): THEN MOSES RETURNED UNTO THE LORD AND SAID: MY LORD, WHY DID YOU BRING HARM (as if from R'H)³⁵The actual root of HR’TH is R“. UPON THIS PEOPLE?…. FOR EVER SINCE I CAME UNTO PHARAOH <TO SPEAK IN YOUR NAME, HE HAS MISTREATED THIS PEOPLE>…. THEN THE LORD SAID UNTO MOSES: NOW YOU SHALL SEE <WHAT I WILL DO TO PHARAOH>…. <You shall see only> what I do to Pharaoh and the Egyptians, but what I do to the thirty-one kings you shall not see.³⁶Exod. R. 5:23 explains that, since these were the kings on whom Joshua would exact vengeance, Exod. 6:1 suggests that Moses was not to enter the promised land. At that time the Holy One sought to sit in judgment over him. Where is it shown? Where it is stated (in Exod. 6:2): SO GOD (Elohim) SPOKE UNTO MOSES. GOD (Elohim) must imply a judge.³⁷See Exod. R. 6:1; PRK 12:23. Thus it is stated (in Exod. 22:27 [28]): YOU SHALL NOT REVILE A GOD (Elohim) <NOR A RULER OF YOUR PEOPLE >. ³⁸On this translation of the verse, see above, 2:1, and the note there. A defense lawyer³⁹Gk.: synegoria. came along and pleaded in his favor, as stated (in Exod. 6:2, cont.): AND HE SAID UNTO HIM: I AM THE LORD. Now THE LORD⁴⁰Here and elsewhere this translation follows the common practice of using THE LORD to render the Divine Name. must imply mercy. Thus it is stated (in Exod. 34:6): THE LORD: THE LORD IS A MERCIFUL AND GRACIOUS GOD (El)….