Egypt Sent Israel Away Not Knowing What They Lost

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 230:14

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Another interpretation: "And it was turned." They said: because of them the good was coming upon us. Rabbi Yose the Galilean says, a parable: to what is the matter like? To one who had a field of a kor's measure fall to him as an inheritance, and so on. So it was done to Egypt: they sent them away and did not know what they sent away, as it is written, "And they said, what is this we have done?"

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