The Redeemer's Sign - Why Israel's Elders Believed Moses

Midrash Tanchuma Buber, Shemot 21:1

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"And Moses and Aaron went and gathered" etc. (Exodus 4:29). He said to them: Thus said the Holy One, blessed be He, "I have surely remembered you." It was a sign for Israel: any redeemer who would come with this sign, "I have surely remembered," they would know that he is a redeemer of truth. For so Joseph had said to them, "And God will surely remember you" (Genesis 50:24). Once he mentioned to them "will surely remember," immediately "and the people believed" (Exodus 4:31). Moses and Aaron said to them: Come with us to Pharaoh. Immediately the elders of Israel took it upon themselves and went with them.

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