[Avodah] Mesorah?

[Zev Sero]

On 9/12/2010 10:25 PM, Rich, Joel wrote:
> Did Yaakov know of HKB"H's telling Avraham that his descendants would be strangers in a strange land?

Surely he did.  I see no reason why Avraham would have kept it secret.
And the "ketz" of 400 years seems to have been known to the Jews in
Egypt, because the Bnei Efraim mistook the date and left 30 years early.

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