And Israel grew into a strong and wealthy nation in the land of Egypt. All 12 tribes with all their offspring and possessions lived in the best part of Egypt, called Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded.
At the time of his death, Jacob already lived for 17 years in Egypt, and his children buried him in the cave in the field of Ephron the Hittite, where Jacob's wife Leah, Abraham and Sarah and Isaac and Rebecca were also put to rest.
And then it came to pass that the 12 sons of Jacob and that generation all died.
And the children of Israel (Jacob) were fruitful, and increased and multiplied abundantly. The land was filled with them.
But Pharaoh died and the new king that came to power didn't know anything about Joseph and the Israelites history.
He was deeply worried about their astonishing numbers, in case of war times. So he tasked his taskmaster to turn the Israel nation into slaves, and made the Israelites built the treasure cities Pithon and Raamses. They cruelly made the Israelites built everything that the Egypt king commanded, like the pyramids.
But the more the Egyptians tried to destroy Israel, the more their numbers grew. They treated the Israelites like animals, and commanded the midwives to kill all the newborn Israel boy babies, but not the girls, as a last resort to get control over the nation.
But the midwives feared God and saved the boys as well.
The new Pharaoh (new king) was extremely angry over this, and then he commanded all his people to kill every newborn Israel boy baby that they know off, but not the girls.
But there was a man of the house of Levi (one of the 12 tribes of Isreal) that took a daughter of Levi as his wife, and she conceived a boy, and she kept him hidden for 3 months.
When he grew to big to hide, she built a little ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch. She then put the child in it, and laid it in the flags by the river's bank. And his sister watched over him all the while to see what would happen to him.
The daughter of Pharaoh came to the river to wash herself, while her maidens walked on the riverbank. She suddenly saw the little ark among the flags, and she sent her maidens to fetch it. She opened it and saw the baby boy, and he started to cry. She knew it was a Hebrew (Israel) child.
Then his sister approached her and asked Pharaoh's daughter if she should fetch a Hebrew midwife to take care of the baby. The princess agreed and his sister brought his mother to the princess. And his mother took him and nursed him.
When he grew, she took him to the princess, and he became her son. She called him Moses.
Source: Exodus 1
