daf bit: Sotah 9

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The mishna describes some cases of "what goes around comes around": Samson followed after the desire of his eyes (i.e. he lusted after Delilah), and so the Philistines put out his eyes. Absalom cohabited with the ten concubines of his father, and so he was stabbed with ten lances. The same idea applies to good too and not just bad: Miriam waited by the banks of the river to see what would happen with her baby brother Moshe, and later all of Israel waited seven days for her to be cured of her affliction so she could rejoin the camp. And Yosef went up to bury his father Yaakov in Cana'an, and later Moshe took Yosef's bones up out of Egypt to bury in the land of Israel. (9b)

According to the midrash, Moshe recovered Yosef's bones on the night of the exodus -- while everybody else was occupied with gathering their own households and Egyptian loot (as commanded), Moshe was tending to the dead.

(Today's daf is 10.)