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What is the significance of the dual command "Raise your staff and stretch out your hand... "?

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Seforno: Hashem instructed Moshe to raise his staff towards the wind, to direct it to blow on the sea and cause it to become dry, and then to stretch out his staff over the sea to cause it to split.

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Tosfos ha'Shalem (in Pasuk 1, citing Moshav Zekenim): It means 'Remove your staff from your hand, and stretch out your hand [to split the sea],' so that Yisrael will know that it is not through [Kishuf via] the staff that he was doing the miracles.

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Hadar Zekenim: It means that Moshe only needed to raise his staff for the sea to split, since Hashem had already stipulated from the six days of Creation that it would so. 1


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As the Torah wrote in Bereishis 1:9 "Yikavu ha'Mayim... Vesera'eh ha'Yabashah".

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