Lift Me and I Will Lift You a Folk Proverb in Barak's Words

Yalkut Shimoni on Nach 43:3

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From where do we have this matter that people say: "If you lift the burden with me, I will lift it with you; and if not, I will not lift it"? As it is written, "And Barak said to her: If you go with me, I will go" (Judges 4:8).

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