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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 10:2/אבן עזרא על שמות י׳:ב׳
אולמען תספר. למשה ידבר שהוא כנגד כל ישראל, וככה וידעתם כי אני ה', שידעו כל ישראל זה, ודברה תורה כלשון בני אדם לומר התעללתי, כאדם משנה התולדות להנקם מאחר:
1AND THAT THOU MAYEST TELL. God spoke to Moses, who is equivalent to all of Israel.20 doesn’t only refer to Moses, to whom God was speaking, but to all of Israel. The point is that Israel might tell their children and grandchildren all that God did to Egypt. Similarly, that ye may know that I am the Lord 21 means that all Israel shall know the aforementioned. The Torah speaks in human terms when it says, I have wrought, for it pictures God as acting as a human being who arranges events in order to avenge himself upon another.