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How did Egypt — the center of commerce and culture — become a tyranny? Pharaoh recognized a threat: a local ethnic group which outperformed, and therefore threatened, his people. Pharaoh knew that his people felt the same way. Indeed, Egyptians had long hated the Jews before they moved to Egypt. (See Bereishis 43:26 and 46:34.) Pharaoh’s solution was to kill all of the Jewish boys…