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When God first appeared to Abraham, he told him that he would bless Abraham with the promised land of Canaan, but he also promised that his descendants would be as numerous as the stars. From Abraham, we received Isaac. From Isaac, we received Esau and Jacob. Jacob became known as Israel and had 12 sons. The nation of Israel would move to the land of Cotian in Egypt under the watchful protection of Israel's son, Joseph. Joseph is now gone. Generations later, the memory of him is no longer as familial to the current Pharaoh in charge of all of Egypt. As Israel begins to increase in number, as God promised they would, Pharaoh becomes worried that this group would become greater than Egypt and fight against them, so he acts by enslaving the entire nation of Israel. For 400 years, the Israelites remained in captivity under the harsh rule of Egypt, yet they continued to multiply greatly. Pharaoh decides this just can't be, so he commands all Israelite boy babies to be killed immediately upon birth. In order that he could control their population growth. As an Israelite baby boy escapes through the brave acts of his mother and sister, he wades down the Nile River in a basket where he is scooped up, cared for, and later adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. As an adult, this Israelite baby named Moses grows up as an Egyptian ruler, yet he fully understands that he is in fact an Israelite by birth. As he watches an Egyptian slave master brutally whipping one of his own, Moses takes matters into his own hands and kills the slave driver. Moses flees, knowing fully well that Pharaoh would kill him for his crimes. Years later, married out in the wilderness, God appears to Moses in a burning bush. God says to Moses, I did save your life in order that you might revenge and free my people Israel.