Rung 1 of 8
The story
What happens, plainly.
A new king rises in Mitzrayim who does not know Yosef. He makes the Israelites slaves and orders the midwives, Shifra and Puah, to kill every boy at birth; they refuse, and Pharaoh orders every boy thrown into the Nile. A Levite mother hides her son for three months, then sets him in a basket among the reeds; Pharaoh's daughter finds him, and his sister arranges for his own mother to nurse him. Grown, Moshe kills an Egyptian who is beating a Hebrew and flees to Midian, where he marries Tzipporah. At Horeb he sees a bush that burns and is not consumed, and from it Hashem sends him back to bring the people out, with Aharon to speak for him. Pharaoh answers by taking away the straw for the bricks, the foremen are beaten, and Moshe cries out, "Why have You done harm to this people?"