Reference for Pesachim 77:14

אמר רבה בר רב הונא אמר רב ירקות שאמרו חכמים שאדם יוצא בהן ידי חובתו בפסח כולן נזרעין בערוגה אחת למימרא דלית בהו משום כלאים

Further, R'Samuel B'Nahman said in R'Jonathan's name: Why were the Egyptians compared to maror?<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' In Ex. I, 14 where the Hebrew for embittered is from the same root as maror.');">²⁰</span> To teach you: just as this maror, the beginning of which is soft while its end is hard,<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' The top is soft, while the stalk hardens like wood.');">²¹</span> so were the Egyptians: their beginning was soft [mild].

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