Shemot 1:13

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1. Full Sentence:

וַיַּעֲבִ֧דוּ מִצְרַ֛יִם אֶת־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל _בְּפָֽרֶךְ_׃ The Egyptians ruthlessly imposed upon the Israelites

Basically they just made them do lots of work.

  • בְּפָֽרֶךְ– Exhausting work that broke the body-rashi
  • Raabi saadia gidion says that it was also a punishment on the mental level–they were being degraded(Shemot 1:13)
  • They egyptians understood that they needed to increase the intensity–The first two phases of the plan to get rid of the jews in egypt

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