Wyjścia 10:16 Komentarz: Tze'enah Ure'enah, Ibn Ezra, Sforno & Rabbeinu Bahya

“I stand guilty before the Lord your God and before you” [10:16]. Pharaoh said: I have sinned against your God and to you in that I have sent you away and chased you out of my house. Therefore, ask God that He should remove the locusts, this bitter death.

Bahya writes. The locusts ate out the eyes of the Egyptians and this killed them. That is why they said: remove this death from us. Moses prayed and a wind carried away the locusts into the sea.⁷Bahya, Exodus, 10:17.

Imre Noam writes. Why into the sea? The explanation is that the locusts were sent back into the sea, in the expectation that the kings would run after Israel into the sea and the locusts would return and hurt the Egyptians. At the sea, each of the plagues was repeated. The same plague afflicted the Egyptians at the sea.⁸Imre Noam, Exodus, 10:19.