God Provides While Israel Sleeps and the Exodus Outweighs All Wonders

Mekhilta DeRabbi Shimon Ben Yochai 16:6

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"And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel: At evening" (Exodus 16:6). They said to them: while you are still sleeping on your beds, the Holy One sustains you. "Then you shall know that the LORD has brought you out from the land of Egypt." From here you say that the going out from Egypt is weighed before the Holy One against [all] the miracles and mighty acts that the Holy One performed for Israel.

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