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." And so the number of
Israelites in Egypt continued to grow.
Exodus 1:1-21
Potential ornaments for the Jesse Tree: two women, a raised fist
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