Because of a severe famine, all of Joseph's eleven
brothers and their families and even his old father Jacob ended up moving to
Egypt where there was still food, so the family was finally reunited. As
years went by, "the Israelites were fruitful and prolific; they multiplied
and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them."
After many, many years, a new king of Egypt decided that there were too many of
these outsiders and he made the Israelites work as slaves. He even
told Puah and Shiphrah, two Hebrew midwives, to kill all the boy babies born to
the Israelites. "But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the
king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live." They
followed their conscience, not the command of the king. And so the number of
Israelites in Egypt continued to grow.
Exodus 1:1-21
Potential ornaments for the Jesse Tree: a baby, two women, a raised fist
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