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Soon after Pharaoh made this declaration, a boy was born to the tribe of Levi. His parents hid him for 3 months. Then his mother put him in a basket and let him float in The Nile River. Pharaoh's daughter sent her slave to get the basket and when she opened it she saw that it was a boy crying. The boy's sister who was watching asked Pharaoh's daughter if she should get a Jewish nurse to suckle the boy for her. She said yes and gave the boy to his sister to nurse it and said she would pay wages for it. When the boy grew up his sister gave him to Pharaoh's daughter, who named him Moses. When Moses grew up, he witnessed The Jews' labors. He saw an Egyptian beating a Jew. Moses killed the Egyptian. Pharaoh sought to kill Moses for this so he ran away to Midian, which is located in The Sinai Peninsula. There he married Zipporah, the daughter of a Midianite priest. A while after this, Pharaoh died and there was a new Pharaoh. The Jews were groaning under the bondage and cried out. Their cry for help from the bondage rose up to God. God heard their cry for help and remembered the covenant he made with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
They remained slaves until Moses, led them out of Egypt after the Egyptians recieved The Ten Plagues. The plagues were because Pharaoh would not let them out of Egypt. Moses's brother was Aaron whom the Kohanim are decended from. God parted The Sea of Reeds so The Jew could cross it. The Sea of Reeds was an ancient Suez arm of The Red Sea, which later on became dry land and today is The Suez Canal. The Egyptian soldiers who were chasing them then drowned when the sea closed. While Moses was on Mount Sinai recieving the Ten Commandments, the people made an idol of a golden calf and Moses got mad and threw The Ten Commandments. God gave him another Ten Commandments. To punish them, they wandered in the desert for 40 years in what is now known as Sinai and Jordan, until the generation died. Moses was 120 when he died. Before he died, he sent 12 spies to scout the land. 10 lied. Only Joshua and Calev didn't lie. The others said the land wasn't conquerable.
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