of your country, and from your kindred ... to the land that I will show you." With the letter mem (), Isaac was redeemed from the land of the Philistines, as in , the Philistine king Abimelech told Isaac, "Go from us: for you are much mightier (, ) than we." With the letter nun (), Jacob was redeemed from the hand of Esau, as in , Jacob prayed, "Deliver me, I pray (, ), from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau." With the letter (), God redeemed Israel from Egypt, as in , God told Moses, "I have surely visited you, (, ) and (seen) that which is done to you in Egypt, and I have said, I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt." With the letter tsade (), God will redeem Israel from the oppression of the kingdoms, and God will say to Israel, I have caused a branch to spring forth for you, as says, "Behold, the man whose name is the Branch (, ); and he shall grow up (, ) out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the Lord." These letters were delivered to Abraham. Abraham delivered them to Isaac, Isaac delivered them to Jacob, Jacob delivered the mystery of the Redemption to Joseph, and Joseph delivered the secret of the Redemption to his brothers, as in , Joseph told his brothers, "God will surely visit (, ) you." Jacob's son Asher delivered the mystery of the Redemption to his daughter Serah. When Moses and Aaron came to the elders of Israel and performed signs in their sight, the elders told Serah. She told them that there is no reality in signs. The elders told her that Moses said, "God will surely visit (, ) you" (as in ). Serah told the elders that Moses was the one who would redeem Israel from Egypt, for she heard (in the words of ), "I have surely visited (, ) you." The people immediately believed in God and Moses, as says, "And the people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel." A Midrash interpreted the words of , "I will surely do you good (, )," (in which the verb is doubled) to mean both "I will do you good for your own sake" and "I will do