## Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach

###### Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 4:1
[Midrash Tanchuma, Beshalach 4:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/Midrash%20Tanchuma/s/Beshalach/r/4:1)

‎**וַה**' הֹלֵךְ לִפְנֵיהֶם. בַּמִּדָּה שֶׁאָדָם מוֹדֵד, בָּהּ מוֹדְדִים לוֹ. אַבְרָהָם לִוָּה מַלְאֲכֵי הַשָּׁרֵת, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: וְאַבְרָהָם הֹלֵךְ עִמָּם לְשַׁלְּחָם (בראשית יח, טז). לְפִיכָךְ לִוָּה הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא אֶת בָּנָיו בַּמִּדְבָּר אַרְבָּעִים שָׁנָה. אַבְרָהָם אָמַר יֻקַּח נָא (וכו', וירא ד).

**Midrash Tanhuma-Yelammedenu, trans. Samuel A. Berman:**
**And the Lord went before them (Exod. 13:21).** Just as a man treats other men, so is he treated. Because Abraham escorted the ministering angels, as it is said: *And Abraham went with them to bring them on the way* (Gen. 18:16), the Holy One, blessed be He, accompanied his sons in the wilderness for forty years. And because Abraham said: *Let now a little water be fetched* (ibid., v. 4), as is written in the portion *And He appeared unto him* (Gen. 18:1), the Holy One, blessed be He, caused the well to appear for his children.