Moses' Flock Fasts Forty Days to Horeb Like Elijah

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Shemot 12:2

Curated by Arthur·Translated by Maggid (Beta)·

(Exodus 3:1, continued:) "And he came to Horeb, the mountain of God" (ibid.). Rabbi Simeon ben Yose ben Leqonya said: Moses' flock walked forty days without eating; it tasted nothing — just as Elijah, of blessed memory, did, [as it is said (in 1 Kings 19:8): "And he arose, and ate, and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights, unto Horeb the mountain of God."]

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