[Avodah] Mesorah?

[Rich, Joel]

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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And how do you understand the drasha that Yaakov came "lagur" and not "lhishtakea"  or the way HKB"H tells him he will bring him back (without mentioning it's just for burial) - perhaps he didn't think it would be his generation?
KT
Joel Rich
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