Shemot 8: The Elders Slipped Out One by One
Nehama Leibowitz
1993
The whole of chapter three and part of four are taken up with the Divine call to Moses, his preparations for undertaking the mission, the overcoming of all his hesitations, from the historic promise of: “I shall be with thee” to his finally being invested with the power to perform signs and miracles. The chapter opens at the moment Moses and Aaron…
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