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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 11:1/אבן עזרא על שמות י״א:א׳

אויאמר ה'. היה ראוי שתהיה דבקה בפסוק הזה פרשת, ויאמר משה כה אמר ד' ונכנסה ביניהם פרשת עוד נגע אחד והטעם להורות זה שאמר כה אמר ד', ומתי נאמר לו, וזה נאמר לו במדין עוד הנה אנכי הורג את בנך בכורך (ד כג) ובבוא מכת בכורים צווה מאת השם בהר סיני שישאלו איש מאת רעהו, וכבר פירשתי למה שם כתוב ושאלה אשה משכנתה (ג כב) וכאן כתוב וישאלו איש מאת רעהו, והנה פי', ויאמר ד' אל משה עוד נגע אחד, וכבר אמר השם זה למשה כי רבים ככה, ויאמר גרש יגרש, כאשר אמר "וביד חזקה יגרשם מארצו" (ו א):

1AND THE LORD SPOKE. The chapter opening with the words, Thus saith the Lord (v. 4)¹ should have been connected to the previous verse.² (11:4), after telling him, Thou hast spoken well; I will see thy face again no more (10:29). However, the chapter stating, Yet one plague more³ was inserted between them. The reason for this is that Scripture wanted to teach us when⁴, as in Vat. Ebr. 48, rather than u-matai, as in the printed editions. Thus saith the Lord⁵ was told to Moses.⁶ (v. 1) means: and the Lord had already said, the reference being to what God told Moses in Midian (Ex. 4:23). It was related to Moses while he was yet in Midian,⁷ viz., Behold, I will slay thy son, thy first-born (Ex. 4:23). Moses was commanded on Mount Sinai⁸ that when the time came for the plague of the first-born to arrive, every man should ask jewels of his neighbor.⁹ I have already explained why it is there written, but every woman shall ask of her neighbor (Ex. 3:22) and here it is written, and let them ask every man of his neighbor.¹⁰ Now the meaning of And the Lord said unto Moses: Yet one plague more will I bring is that the Lord had already told this to Moses.¹¹ (and he said) as a pluperfect, meaning: and he had said. There are many such cases in Scripture.¹² God said, he shall surely thrust you out, in keeping with His statement, and by a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land (Ex. 6:1).