Parting Words for the Living and for the Dead

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 77:15

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(Genesis 15:16) One who takes leave of the dead should not say to him, "Go to peace," but rather "Go in peace," as it is said, "and you shall go to your fathers in peace" (Genesis 15:15). One who takes leave of a living companion should not say to him, "Go in peace," but rather "Go to peace," for behold, David said to Absalom, "Go in peace" (2 Samuel 15:9), and he went and was hanged; Jethro said to Moses, "Go to peace" (Exodus 4:18), and he went and prospered.

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