20:15 how our ancestors went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time, 1 and the Egyptians treated us and our ancestors badly. 2
1 tnHeb “many days.”
2 tn The verb רָעַע (ra’a’) means “to act or do evil.” Evil here is in the sense of causing pain or trouble. So the causative stem in our passage means “to treat wickedly.”