ולא יתן המשחית. קשה להרב משה דהא בהגדה כתיב ועברתי בארץ מצרים אני ולא מלאך וי"ל דה"פ אני בכבודי וגם המלאך ולא המלאך לבדו כי לא (יתרץ) [יתכן] כן שיהיה הקב"ה בלא מלאך: ולא יתן המשחית לבא, “and will not suffer the destroyer to come;” Rabbi Moshe finds this phrase difficult, as in the Haggadah shel Pessach, the author quoting verse 12 in our chapter, we are told expressly that G–d Himself carried out the plague of killing the firstborn, so that the angel of death was not involved in any way on that night. We must therefore understand the verses to mean that what is meant is that the angel of death by himself was not authorised to perform his duties on that night, only in conjunction with the Lord Himself. The Lord never acts alone, but is always accompanied by an angel or angels.