Sarah Praised and Bid Up Before Pharaoh

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 67:8

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"And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh" (Genesis 12:15). She kept rising higher. This one said: I will give a hundred dinars and go in to her. And that one said: I will give two hundred dinars and go in to her. I know only of their rising; from where do I learn of their descending? "And they took Jeremiah, and so forth" (Jeremiah 38:6) they raised him up. I know only of this world; from where do I learn of the world to come? Scripture teaches, "And many peoples shall take them and bring them to their place" (Isaiah 14:2).

Themes

MatriarchsEgyptRedemption

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