) "They stood up like a flask" — Just as a bound flask

Mekhilta DeRabbi Yishmael Mekhilta Tractate Shirah 6:18

Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team · Published January 21, 2025

(Ibid.) "They stood up like a flask": Just as a bound flask neither emits nor admits, so, the spirits of the Egyptians were bound up within them, neither emitting nor admitting—while Israel ate and drank and rejoiced. Sweet water issued forth for them from salted water, viz. (Psalms 78:160) "and He brought forth nozlim from the rock," "nozlim" being living waters, as in (Song of Songs 4:15) "a garden spring, a well of living waters," and (Mishlei 5:15) "Drink water from your pit and nozlim from your well."

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