When Pharaoh demanded a sign, Aharon was to throw down his rod and watch it become a serpent. But Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus 7:9 translates the Hebrew tannin with the word basilisk-serpent — a creature of terror in Aramaic folklore — and then adds a sentence that reaches back to the dawn of the world.
The meturgeman explains that all the inhabiters of the earth shall hear the voice of the shriek of Mizraim when I shatter them, as all the creatures heard the shriek of the serpent when made naked at the beginning. The rod-serpent in Pharaoh's court is a deliberate echo of the serpent in Eden. When God cursed the serpent (Genesis 3:14), the Targum imagines every creature heard its scream. When God shatters Egypt, every nation will hear Egypt's scream the same way.
This is cosmic bookkeeping. The first tyrant of the soul — the serpent who pushed humanity out of the garden — is the ancestor of every tyrant of the body. Pharaoh, enslaver of Israel, is revealed as a descendant of Eden's deceiver. His fall will sound like the original fall.
The takeaway: God's justice has a memory. The defeat of tyranny always rhymes with the first moment tyranny entered the world.