This Klei Yakar is related to the other Klei Yakar at the end of Vayigash as he alludes to it there. What caused the servitude in Mitzraim is the absorbtion in the land and enjoyment of it, where they should have been strangers in a strange land, ki ger yihye zaracha, on which the mitzriim became jealous of, so they had the Jews work to weaken them.
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