אור החיים — ויאמר משה כן דברת לא אסף עוד ראות פניך

Q — When Pharaoh banishes Moshe with a threat of death should he ever return, Moshe replies 'You have spoken correctly — I will not see your face again.' How can a prophet promise never to return when he is bound to obey whatever God may later command?

A — Or HaChaim treats Moshe's confident reply as grounded in foreknowledge of the divine plan. Because God had already disclosed the trajectory of the plagues and the redemption, Moshe knew that the encounters with Pharaoh had reached their end. His agreement with Pharaoh's words was not a personal vow but an acknowledgment that the mission's confrontational phase was complete; the final plague and Exodus would not require him to seek Pharaoh's presence again.