If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your bosom or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you in secret, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods” that you have not known, you or your fathers.
English: “In secret” — This teaches that they speak their words only in secret; and so it says “in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and darkness.”
On the daf / in context: The mesis characteristically operates in concealment; the verse underscores the clandestine nature of the seduction to idolatry.
Type of Learning
Derash on the verse (Sifrei) — the secret character of the mesis’s words.
What Is Learned
The words of the mesis are spoken only in secret; the Torah itself indicates the hidden setting of such enticement.