Resh Lakish on the Warning Blow Before Each Plague of Egypt

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Bo 17:4

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Resh Lakish said: This teaches that before the plague there was another blow. How so? Every time the Holy One, blessed be He, sought to bring a plague upon the Egyptians, He would send Moses and say to him: Go, say to them that I am bringing such-and-such a plague upon them. And at the time when the plague of the firstborn came, Moses said to them (Exodus 11:4): "About midnight."

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PlaguesEgyptMiraclesWarAdam Eve

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