) "Quaking has seized the dwellers of Plasheth" — Once the

Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Mekhilta Tractate Shirah 9:13

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(Exodus, Ibid.) "Quaking has seized the dwellers of Plasheth": Once the dwellers of Plasheth heard that Israel had entered the land, they said: They have come to take revenge for the sons of Ephraim, viz. (I Chronicles 7:20, etc.) and (Psalms 78:9) "And the sons of Ephraim, armed and carrying bows, were turned back in the day of battle." Why so? (Ibid. 10) (For) "they did not keep the covenant of G–d and refused to walk in His law." And because they violated the term and the oath (viz. (Numbers 14:4)4),

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