The Sea Paid Egypt Back With Its Own Cunning

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 248:1

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"And with the breath of Your nostrils the waters were piled up [ne'ermu]" (Exodus 15:8). With the very measure by which they measured, You measured back to them. They said, "Come, let us deal shrewdly [nit'chakkemah] with him" (Exodus 1:10); so You too placed cunning [armumit] into the waters, and the waters waged war against them with every kind of punishment. Therefore it is said, "And with the breath of Your nostrils the waters were piled up."

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Divine JusticeEgyptMiracles

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