זוהר, תוספות כרך ג י״אZohar, Addenda, Volume III 11

Segment 1א׳

לֵאמֹר הִנֵּה עַם יָצָא מִמִצְרַיִם. אִי תֵימָא דְּהָא צָרִיךְ לְנַטְלָא פִּיפּוּסִין וְיוֹחַסִין דִּילְהוֹן, לָא אִיצְטְרִיךְ אֶלָּא אוֹרַח כְּלָל דִּכְתִיב הִנֵּה עַם יָצָא. מַאי טַעְמָא, מִשׁוּם דְהַכִי קָרֵי לוֹן פַּטְרוֹנָא דִּילְהוֹן כַּמָה זִמְּנִין. וְעַל דָא לָא תִטְעֵי דִּכְתִיב (שמות ה׳:א׳) שָׁלַח אֶת עַמִי בְּכָל זְמָן.

“Saying, Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt.” If you should say that he needed to take their registers and their genealogies — that was not needed, but only the general way, as it is written, “Behold, there is a people come out.” What is the reason? Because so their protector calls them many times. And therefore do not err, for it is written, “Let My people go” (Ex. 5, 1), at all times.

Segment 2ב׳

וְעוֹד כַּד נַטְלַת עֵיטָא עֲלַיְיהוּ עִם פַּרְעֹה בְּלִישְׁנָא דָא יָכַלְתְּ לְהוּ. דִּכְתִיב, (שמות א׳:ט׳) הִנֵּה עַם בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל רָב וְעָצוּם מִמֶּנּוּ. אוּף הַשְׁתָּא דִּכְתִיב, הִנֵּה עַם יָצָא ממִצְרַיִם וְלָא אַפִּיק לוֹן אַחֲרָא, אֶלָּא אִיהוּ מִגַּרְמֵיהּ נָפַק. וּבְגִין כָּךְ תֵיכוּל לְאַבְאָשָׁא לוֹן.

And further: when you took counsel against them with Pharaoh, in this same language you prevailed over them, as it is written, “Behold, the people of the children of Israel are too many and too mighty for us” (Ex. 1, 9). So too now, as it is written, “Behold, there is a people come out from Egypt” — and no other brought them out; rather, they came out of themselves. And therefore you will be able to do them harm.

Segment 3ג׳

הִנֵּה כִּסָה אֵת עֵין הָאָרֶץ, אִית דְּאַמְרֵי סִיחוֹן וְעוֹג דְּקַטְלֵי (דקטלו) לוֹן יִשְׂרָאֵל, דַהֲווּ עֵינָא דְּאַרְעָא. אֶלָּא כַּד אַיְיתֵי קוּדְשָׁא בְּרִיךְ הוּא אַרְבֵּה עַל אַרְעָא דְּמִצְרַיִם. כְּתִיב, (שמות י׳:ט״ו) וַיְכַס אֵת עֵין כָּל הָאָרֶץ וַתֶחְשַׁךְ הָאָרֶץ. אֲמַאי, בְּגִין דְּכָל חַרְשִׁין וְקִסְמִין דְּעָלְמָא לָא יַכְלִין לְמֶעְבַּד חַרְשִׁין אֶלָּא מִלָּה חֲדָא בְּדַרְגָּא חֲדָא, בְּזִמְנָא חֲדָא. וְעַמָּא דָא אַיְיתֵי עַרוֹב מֵבּוּלְבַּל מִכַּמָּה זִינִין מֵבּוּלְבָּלִין אִלֵּין בְּאִלֵּין, עַד דְּלָא יָכְלוּ כָּל חַרְשִׁין וְקִסְמִין לְמֵיקָם. וְדָא הוּא וַיְכַס אֵת עֵין כָּל הָאָרֶץ. וְהָכָא כְּתִיב, וַיְכַס אֵת עֵין הָאָרֶץ וְהָכִי הוּא וַדַּאי.

“behold, it has covered the eye of the earth.” There are those who say: Sihon and Og, whom Israel killed, who were the eye of the land. Rather, when the Holy One, blessed be He, brought the locust upon the land of Egypt, it is written, (Ex. 10, 15) “And it covered the eye of the whole earth, and the earth was darkened.” Why? Because all the sorceries and divinations of the world cannot work sorceries save upon one thing, in one grade, at one time; and this people brought out a mixed multitude, confounded, of many kinds mingled one with another, until all the sorceries and divinations could not stand. And this is “And it covered the eye of the whole earth.” And here it is written, “And it covered the eye of the earth” — and so it is assuredly.