Pharaoh woke up sweating.
In his sleep he had seen a balance. On one pan, all the land of Mizraim — the pyramids, the treasuries, the Nile itself, the whole weight of an empire. On the other pan, a single lamb. A young sheep. A tiny, bleating thing.
The lamb's pan sank. The empire's pan rose into the air.
The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan on Exodus (1:15) is one of the most cinematic expansions in the Aramaic tradition. Pharaoh summons every magician in Egypt. The chief of the magicians — named Jannis and Jambres, a pair the Targum drops casually as if everyone knows them — read the dream in one glance. "A certain child is about to be born in the congregation of Israel, by whose hand will be destruction to all the land of Mizraim."
The lamb was Moses. The scale was already tipping.
So Pharaoh summons the Hebrew midwives — Shifra, who is Jokeved, and Puvah, who is Miriam her daughter. The Targum reveals the midwives as Moses's own mother and sister before the Torah names them aloud. These two women are about to be ordered to murder their own kin.
The dream tells you everything about power. An empire that weighs itself against a lamb is already losing. The empires of the world keep imagining that their bulk is their strength, and then one small life — one prophet, one child, one act of courage — comes and tips the whole scale.
Beloved, do not underestimate the lamb on your doorstep.