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Ibn Ezra on Exodus 13:3/אבן עזרא על שמות י״ג:ג׳

אויאמר משה. ביום ט"ו יום אמר זכור, כמו והיה היום הזה לכם לזכרון (למעלה יב יד):

1AND MOSES SAID. Remember this day was said by Moses on the fifteenth day.⁸) of the 15th day (yom) he said remember. Filwarg correctly points out that the second yom is a scribal error and should be deleted. It means the same as And this day shall be unto you for a memorial (Ex. 12:14).

בוטעם מבית עבדים, שהיו מעבידים אותם כאילו היו עבדיהם, ובמקום אחר אמר מכור הברזל (דבר' ד כ) כי המצריים חזקו עליהם, והשם הוציאם בחזק יד מהחזקים:

2[OUT OF THE HOUSE OF BONDAGE.] This indicates that the Egyptians forced them to work as if they were their slaves.⁹, 1:5, “From the hour of their birth, some are marked out for subjection, others for rule…Clearly there are some who are by nature free, others are by nature slaves, and for the latter their condition of servitude is both advantageous and just.” Elsewhere Scripture reads, out of the iron furnace (Deut. 4:20), for the Egyptians overpowered them.¹⁰ However, the Lord brought them out by strength of hand from the mighty.