The Sign of the Staff Pointed Toward the Coming Torah

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 181:2

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Another interpretation: "When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, Produce a wonder for yourselves." The Holy One, blessed be He, said to him: Tomorrow I will bring them out of Egypt, and I will give them the Torah, concerning which it is said, "If there arises in your midst a prophet... and he gives you a sign or a wonder" (Deuteronomy 13:2).

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