Four Cubits of Escort and Four Hundred Years of Bondage

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 69:2

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"And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him" (Genesis 12:20). Rabbi Joshua ben Levi said: because of the four cubits that Pharaoh escorted Abraham, as it says, "And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him, and they sent him away," his descendants were enslaved four hundred years, as it says, "And they shall serve them, and they shall afflict them four hundred years" (Genesis 15:13).

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EgyptDivine JusticeExile

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