The Nations Fear Plunder and the Ruin of Their Land

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 251:10

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Another interpretation: they said, they have no road anywhere except over us, for now they are coming and plundering all our possessions and laying waste our land.

Themes

IsraelHoly LandEgypt

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