פּ֣וֹטֵֽר מַ֭יִם רֵאשִׁ֣ית מָד֑וֹן וְלִפְנֵ֥י הִ֝תְגַּלַּ֗ע הָרִ֥יב נְטֽוֹשׁ׃
O princípio da contenda é como o soltar de águas represadas; deixa por isso a porfia, antes que haja rixas.
Rashi
פטר כל רחם THE FIRST OFFSPRING OF EVERY WOMB — The words mean: that which first openeth the womb, the root פטר meaning to open, as in (Proverbs 17:14) “As one makes an opening (פוטר) for water so is the beginning of strife”; and so, too, is (Psalms 22:8) יפטירו בשפה i. e. “they open the lips”.
Rashbam
פטר, a word describing an opening, an orifice. The word occurs in this sense in Proverbs 17,14 פוטר מים ראשית מדון, “starting a quarrel is like opening a sluice..”
Kli Yakar
And the people quarreled with Moses. In all the complaints, we do not find the language of quarreling except regarding water matters, twice: here and at Massah and Meribah (Exodus 17:7). This is because from water, division was created, as our Sages said (Bereishit Rabbah 4:6): “Why was ‘it was good’ not said on the second day? Because on it division was created, as it says (Genesis 1:6), And let it be a separation between waters and waters.” And it is explained in the tradition (Proverbs 17:14), The beginning of strife is like releasing water. When the waters were released and separated from each other, this was the beginning of strife and the start of all quarreling. Similarly, the quarrel of Isaac’s shepherds was about water, for all this follows naturally from the primordial waters. And they quarreled with Moses, who was drawn from the water, and whose hand ruled over the waters at the Red Sea and at the rock. [They argued,] “Why can’t he bring forth water for us from the flint rock now as well?”
Rashi
they will open Heb. יפטירו, they open, as (in Exod. 13:12, 13): “all that open (פטר) the womb,...and firstling (ופטר) of a donkey.” [Also] (in Prov. 17: 14): “like letting out (פוטר) water.”
Rav Hirsch
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פטר is an expression denoting “opening”; similar is (Proverbs 17:14) “As if one openeth (letteth run) (פוטר) water so is the beginning of strife”. The ת of תזכר expresses the feminine gender and refers to the animal in labour (i. e. the prefix is 3rd fem. sing., not 2nd masc. sing.: the subject to תזכר must be supplied “the mother animal”).