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“The Children of Israel did according to the word of Moshe; they requested from the Egyptians silver vessels, gold vessels, and garments.”

And Pharaoh sent for Moshe and Aharon and said to them, “I have sinned this time. Hashem is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.”

– Sh’mos 9:27

But as for me, when I traveled from Padan, Rachel died on me in the land of Canaan on the road, while there was still some amount of land to go to Efras; and I buried her there on the road in Efras, which is Beis Lechem.

“And they related to him all the words of Yosef that he had spoken to them, and he saw the wagons that Yosef had sent to transport him; then the spirit of their father Yaakov was revived.”

– B’reishis 45: 27

The Bach, commenting on the Tur Shulchan Aruch, explains that the decrees of the Y’vanim against the Jewish People occurred because the Jewish People became “lax in their service.”

“These are the offspring of Yaakov: Yosef, at the age of 17 years, was a shepherd with his brothers by the flock, and he was a youth with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives; and Yosef would bring evil reports of them to their father.”