English: Rav and Shmuel explain “store cities” in two ways: cities that endanger their owners, or cities that impoverish their owners, since one who engages in construction becomes poor.
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Type of Learning
Custom — dual reading of miskenos.
What Is Learned
The very cities built to secure Egypt already contained the seeds of danger or impoverishment for their builders.