the people of israel established itself in egypt and the descendants of jacob and joseph multiplied for a long time the egyptians showed their gratitude to joseph for saving egypt from a major cataclysm and because of that his people were treated with respect but many years after the death of joseph the hebrew's life in egypt started to change god made abraham's descendants fertile therefore the hebrew population in egypt grew rapidly the israelites were now numerous more powerful and influential when a new pharaoh sat on the throne someone who knew nothing about joseph and egypt's debt of
gratitude to the people of israel the life of the hebrews changed abruptly the pharaoh feared the hebrews growing power a population that multiplied and thrived he considered that the israelites had to be contained otherwise egypt would fall the ruler decreed that the israelites had to endure forced labor nevertheless they continued to multiply the pharaoh subjected god's chosen people to slavery and their lives embittered and under the egyptian rule they were forced to conduct the most strenuous and degrading tasks nonetheless albeit subjected to the harsh slave life the people of israel continued to multiply just as
god promised abraham the egyptian ruler forced the midwives of the israelites to murder the hebrew offspring as soon as they were born they refused to obey such an order which threatened the very existence of their people and when the authorities questioned them about their refusal noticing that their children continued to be born they stated that israeli women were blessed with so much strength that they had given birth before their arrival enraged the pharaoh decreed that all newborn boys would have to be thrown into the nile and only the girls deserved to be saved the terror
grew among the hebrews and mothers saw their children being snatched from their arms a woman of the tribe of levi attempted to hide her son and for three months the child managed to dodge the pharaoh's wrath but as he grew older it became more difficult to hide him desperate to save her son's life she laid the baby in a seagrass blanket and let it sail the nile his mother prayed to god asking for his mercy to save her child's fate as the basket with the baby floated on the nile his sister chased it following along
the bank the god's will then guided the basket towards the riverbanks precisely where the pharaoh's daughter was bathing herself spotting the basket between the reeds the egyptian princess ordered her maiden to pick it up the pharaoh's daughter was stunned when she discovered that there was a beautiful baby in it all the evidence pointed out that such a child could only be a hebrew offspring nevertheless she decided to adopt the child and called him moses since he had been saved from the waters the child would then grow up among the highest egyptian nobility not knowing that
an even more glorious fate awaited him moses had been rescued from the nile by the princess daughter of the egyptian pharaoh she adopted him and moses grew among the highest egyptian nobility the princess needed a nurse for the baby and in order to feed moses an israeli slave was brought who was in fact his biological mother among the egyptian princes he had a life of luxury and privilege and already an adult he wanted to see in person how the hebrews his ancestry were treated the prince felt nothing short of horrified after witnessing the conditions under
which his brothers were living seeing an egyptian overseer brutally beating an israeli slave wrath took hold of moses's will and he attacked the egyptian the latter eventually died the news that moses had committed a dreadful crime spread quickly and the pharaoh ordered moses to be arrested having no other alternative moses went into exile living now like a vagabond moses encountered a group of young women who were trying to hydrate their flock but a group of shepherds was stopping the girls from reaching the well moses intervened on behalf of the girls allowing them to give water
to their animals the girls thanked the egyptian and introduced him to their father rule the girl's father invited moses to live with them and offered him one of his daughters in marriage and the former egyptian prince settled in the median lands he and his wife zipporah gave birth to gershom and together they lived in peace in his new home but meanwhile the people of israel suffered under egyptian rule time passed and a new pharaoh sat now on the throne his government was even tougher on the hebrews and the chosen people asked for the creator's help
god didn't ignore abraham's descendants as he would never forget the pact made with the israelites moses was guiding his flock grazing on the mount horab the mountain of god when he saw a bush spontaneously bursting into flames intrigued by it moses walked to the bush and realized that despite the fire the plant was not burned by fire and flames and moses heard the lord's call god said i am the god of your father the god of abraham the god of isaac and the god of jacob god declared that he had come down to answer the
cry of the chosen people and moses would be god's instrument to free abraham's people from the egyptians moses wasn't convinced he was just a simple man and he couldn't imagine his voice being heard god asked moses to drop his rod and when his rod touched the ground much to moses's astonishment it became a serpent the creator ordered moses to grab the serpent by the tail and with that it became a rod again that miracle alone would be enough to show the israelites that god was by moses's side and that he was there to help them
in their liberation god taught other mechanisms to convince abraham's people that moses told the truth nevertheless moses still asked for someone else to be chosen saying he lacked oratorical abilities but god reassured him he would always be by his side telling him what to say god led aaron to his brother moses he would be moses spokesman the two brothers returned to egypt to free god's chosen people [Music] moses was chosen by god to free the israelites then enslaved in egypt he returned to egypt after his long exile in median at his side was his brother
aaron renowned among the hebrews the leaders of the israelites gathered to listen to what the ancient prince of egypt had to say aaron and moses explained god's plan to free his chosen people and in order to convince them moses showed the miraculous signs that god had taught him witnessing such a miracle the hebrews believed that such a man could only be god's envoy but the pharaoh would not be so easily convinced moses and aaron were received by the pharaoh and revealed god's will to him moses then said let my people go but the pharaoh was
not willing to release the israelites moses warned him that if god's will was not fulfilled egypt would be subjected to all sorts of plagues but such a threat only embittered the heart of the egyptian sovereign retaliating the pharaoh made the lives of the hebrews even more difficult the sovereign ordered the straw used by the slaves to make bricks to be removed but the daily production quota remained unchanged and therefore the work of the israelites became even more painful moses was dismayed to see that his people now suffered even more than before his arrival god commanded
moses to return to the pharaoh once more showing him the signs that he was god's representative standing before the pharaoh aaron threw moses's rod to the ground which became a serpent but the pharaoh's priests using their occult efforts replicated the action throwing two rods that also became snakes nevertheless moses's serpent devoured the other two snakes yet again moses and aaron failed to convince pharaoh to free god's people the creator knew that the pharaoh would not voluntarily free the hebrew people and therefore the sovereign and his people would feel the strength of god's hand to bend
the pharaoh's will different calamities plagued to the kingdom these events became known as the ten plagues of egypt you
