출애굽기 12:19의 미드라쉬

(Numb. 22:20:) THEN GOD CAME UNTO BALAAM AT NIGHT. This text is related (to Exod. 12:42): THAT WAS FOR THE LORD A NIGHT OF VIGIL TO BRING THEM OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT, THAT WAS THIS VERY NIGHT. All miracles which were done for Israel and which involved exacting retribution for them from the wicked took place at night.²⁹Tanh., Numb. 7:8; Numb. R. 20:12. (Gen. 31:24:) AND GOD CAME UNTO LABAN THE ARAMEAN IN A DREAM AT NIGHT. (Gen. 20:3:) BUT GOD CAME UNTO ABIMELECH [IN A DREAM AT NIGHT]. (Exod. 12:29:) AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. (Exod. 14:20:) THUS THERE WAS THE CLOUD AND THE DARKNESS WHICH LIT UP THE NIGHT. (Gen. 14:15:) AND THE NIGHT WAS DIVIDED AGAINST THEM.³⁰This translation is necessary to provide a miracle. A more common translation would be THEN HE DEPLOYED <HIS FORCES> AGAINST THEM BY NIGHT. And <so it was with> all of them (as in Exod. 12:42): A NIGHT OF VIGIL.