And when he informed about their destruction, he turned to what he did to the Children of Israel and said: "And We inherited" meaning: after their destruction by that which we have of greatness, "the people." And when he indicated by this phrase - which means that there was strength and multitude among them, and a strong determination for what they attempted and stood for - that it was he who humiliated them, not Pharaoh, he followed it with what indicates this and said: "Those who were oppressed" meaning: their weakness was sought and found with the strength and unity of the word by a ruler whose greatness had become established in the hearts that were dominated by imagination, and they are the Children of Israel. "The east of the earth" meaning: the complete one for its blessings, "and the west of it" meaning: the land of the Levant from the Euphrates to the Sea of Suf, the place from which they emerged from the sea and in which Pharaoh and his people drowned, as has been conveyed in Al-Ma'idah from the Torah, meaning our decree of inheriting them that and we fulfilled it for the children of those who left Egypt after their destruction in the wilderness. Then he described it with admiration by saying: "Which We blessed in it" meaning: in its land with water, trees, fruits, and fertility, and in its provisions with abundance and goodness, and in its men with knowledge and prophethood, and in their natures with uprightness, and in their resolutions with assistance, bravery, and noble qualities, and in all their conditions that no oppressor seeks to harm them except he is hastened with punishment. "And it was completed" meaning: its validity was established for the existence of its guarantee in the world of testimony and its manifestation from the veils of the unseen. "The word of your Lord" [Hud: 119] meaning: the One who is gracious to you by sending down this news upon these beneficial faces with its miraculousness for the ultimate knowledge and wisdom. "The best" exalted above "the Children of Israel" meaning: which is the best of speech and is His promise, glorified and exalted is He, to them of deliverance from servitude and inheriting them the dwellings of their forefathers as they used to hear from their ancestors. And when it exalted over them, it prevented their enemies from reaching them. "Because of their patience" meaning: due to their patience upon servitude and the slaughter of their children and what occurred after that from prolonged hardships. "And We destroyed" meaning: We caused a great destruction that made it turn to ash, with no good in it at all. "What they were doing" meaning: a deed with the utmost attention to it until it was as if they were created for it. "Pharaoh and his people" meaning: from the amazing, astonishing deeds for everyone who sees or hears of them, although they had become accustomed to them, so they became the easiest thing for them. "And what they were" meaning: by that which is like nature and disposition. "Building" meaning: from gardens and lofty palaces. And this verse is sufficient as an encouragement to patience and a guarantee for everyone who has the reward by relieving the oppressed and aiding him and destroying the oppressor and overpowering him.

He explained what needs to be explained here from the Torah that is currently among the Jews. He said, translating in the third chapter of the second book, what its text is: And the Lord said to Moses in Midian: Go back to Egypt, for the men who sought your life have all died. So Moses went with his wife and his sons and put them on his donkey and took in his hand the staff of the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses: Look at every sign I have performed through your hand; do them before Pharaoh, and I will harden his heart so that he will not send the people. And say to Pharaoh: Thus says the Lord: Israel is my firstborn son. Let him go that he may serve me. If you refuse to let him go, I will kill your firstborn son. And when Moses was on the way at the lodging place, the angel of the Lord met him and sought to kill him. Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off the foreskin of her son and touched his feet with it and said: Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me. So the Lord said to Aaron: Go out to meet your brother in the wilderness. So he went and met him at the mountain of God and kissed him. And Moses told Aaron all the words of the Lord who had sent him and all the signs that he had commanded him to do. And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel. And Aaron spoke all the words which the Lord had spoken to Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people. And the people believed; and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel and that He had looked on their affliction, they bowed their heads and worshiped. After these signs and events, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Let my people go that they may hold a feast to me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said: Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go. So they said: The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the desert and sacrifice to the Lord our God, lest He fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword. Then the king of Egypt said to them: Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor. And Pharaoh said: Look, the people of the land are many now, and you make them rest from their labor. So the same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their officers, saying: You shall no longer give the people straw to make brick as before. Let them go and gather straw for themselves. And you shall lay on them the quota of bricks which they made before; you shall not reduce it. For they are idle; therefore they cry out, saying: Let us go and sacrifice to our God. Let more work be laid on the men, that they may labor in it, and let them not regard false words. And the taskmasters of the people went out and their officers and they spoke to the people, saying: Thus says Pharaoh: I will not give you straw. Go, get yourselves straw where you can find it; yet none of your work will be reduced. So the people were scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. And the taskmasters forced them to hurry, saying: Fulfill your work, your daily quota, as when there was straw. Also the officers of the children of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked: Why have you not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and today, as before? Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried out to Pharaoh, saying: Why are you dealing thus with your servants? There is no straw given to your servants, and they say to us, Make brick! And look, your servants are beaten; but the fault is in your own people. But he said: You are idle! Idle! Therefore you say, Let us go and sacrifice to the Lord. Therefore go now and work; for no straw shall be given you, yet you shall deliver the quota of bricks. And the officers of the children of Israel saw that they were in trouble after it was said: You shall not reduce any bricks from your daily quota. Then, as they came out from Pharaoh, they met Moses and Aaron, who stood there to meet them. And they said to them: Let the Lord look on you and judge, because you have made us abhorrent in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us. So Moses returned to the Lord and said: Lord, why have you brought trouble on this people? Why is it you have sent me? For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in your name, he has done evil to this people; neither have you delivered your people at all. Then the Lord said to Moses: Now you shall see what I will do to Pharaoh. For with a strong hand he will let them go, and with a strong hand he will drive them out of his land. And God spoke to Moses and said to him: I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by my name, Lord, I was not known to them. I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers. And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant. Therefore say to the children of Israel: I am the Lord; I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, I will rescue you from their bondage, and I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with great judgments. I will take you as my people, and I will be your God. Then you shall know that I am the Lord your God who brings you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. And I will bring you into the land which I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and I will give it to you as a heritage: I am the Lord. So Moses spoke thus to the children of Israel; but they did not heed Moses, because of anguish of spirit and cruel bondage. And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: Go in, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt to let the children of Israel go out of his land. And Moses spoke before the Lord, saying: The children of Israel have not heeded me; how then shall Pharaoh heed me, for I am of uncircumcised lips? Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, and gave them a command for the children of Israel and for Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt. These are the heads of their fathers' houses: The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanok and Pallu, Hezron and Karmi; these are the families of Reuben. The sons of Simeon were Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman; these are the families of Simeon. These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari; and the years of the life of Levi were one hundred and thirty-seven years. The sons of Gershon were Libni and Shimei, according to their families. The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were one hundred and thirty-three years. The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi; these are the families of the Levites according to their generations. Now Amram took for himself Jochebed, his father's sister, as wife; and she bore him Aaron and Moses. And the years of the life of Amram were one hundred and thirty-seven years. The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri. The sons of Uzziel were Mishael and Elzaphan and Zithri. Aaron took to himself Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Nahshon, as wife; and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. And the sons of Korah were Assir, Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites. Eleazar, Aaron's son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families. These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said: Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their armies. It was they who spoke to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt. These are the same Moses and Aaron. And it came to pass, on the day the Lord spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt, that the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: I am the Lord; speak to Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I say to you. But Moses said before the Lord: Behold, I am of uncircumcised lips, and how shall Pharaoh heed me?