Pharaoh Knocking on Moses' Door Crying Rise and Go

"Rise, go out" (Exodus 12:31). This teaches that Pharaoh was knocking on the door of Moses and Aaron. They said to him, "You fool! Do we go out at night? Are we thieves? We go out in the morning." He said, "But behold, all Egypt has died, as it is said (below, verse 33), 'For they said, We are all dead men.'" They said to him, "And do you wish to end this plague upon you? Then say, 'Behold, you are your own masters, behold, you are the servants of the Holy One, blessed be He.'" Pharaoh began to shout, "In the past you were my servants, but now behold, you are free men, behold, you are your own masters! You must give praise to the Holy One, blessed be He, that you are His servants, as it is said (Psalms 113:1), 'Halleluyah, praise, O servants of the LORD.'" "You yourself shall also give into our hands" (this is written in [reference] 92). "Rise, go out" (Exodus 12:31): I said, "Who and who are the ones going?" and you say (verse 9), "With our young and with our old" and so forth. "Rise, go out": I said (verse 24), "Let your flocks and your herds be left," and you say, "Our cattle also shall go with us" (verse 32). "Both your flocks and your herds, take." You say (verse 25), "You also shall give into our hands": take, as you have spoken, and go, and bless me also: pray for me, so that the punishment may cease from me. "And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people" (Exodus 12:33). This tells that they were terrifying them and pressing them to leave. "For they said, We are all dead men." They said: not according to the decree of Moses. Moses said (Exodus 11:5), "And every firstborn shall die," and they supposed that one who has four or five sons, only one of them would die, the firstborn among them. But they did not know that their wives were suspected of forbidden relations, and that they were all firstborn from other bachelors. They had acted in secret, and the Omnipresent publicized them openly. And behold, this is an argument from minor to major [a fortiori]: if in the measure of punishment, which is the lesser, the One who acts in secret the Omnipresent publicizes openly, how much more so for the measure of goodness, which is the greater.