Jewish%20thought for Sotah 24:13

ראו שמושיען של ישראל במים הוא לוקה עמדו וגזרו כל הבן הילוד היאורה תשליכוהו כיון דשדיוה למשה אמרו תו לא חזינן כי ההוא סימנא בטלו לגזירתייהו והם אינן יודעין שעל מי מריבה הוא לוקה

After they had thrown Moses [into the water], they said: 'We do not see that sign any longer';<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' Indicating that the peril to Pharaoh was averted by this action. ');">¹⁹</span> they thereupon rescinded their decree. But they knew not that he was to be punished through the water of Meribah.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' [And that this was the meaning of the sign they had seen.] ');">²⁰</span>

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