Rabbi Eliezer Says It Was the Sabbath When Joseph Came to Do His Work

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 146:2

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"And he came into the house to do his work" (Genesis 39:11). Rabbi Eliezer says: It was the Sabbath, as it is written, "For on it He rested from all His work" (Genesis 2:3). And what work did he have? He was reviewing and reading what his father had taught him.

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