There were 70 descendants of Jacob when the Israelites entered Egypt but as time went by they multiplied a great deal. One day a new Pharoah, who didn't know about Joseph, came to power and he became very wary of the size of the Israelite population which he viewed as a potential danger. So the Egyptians oppressed the Israelites and forced them into slavery, but still they kept growing in numbers. Therefore the king of Egypt ordered the Hebrew midwives to kill the boys being born and only let the girls live, but they feared God too much to do such a thing. When Pharoah realized his order wasn't being obeyed he questioned the midwives who told him the babies were being born before their arrival. Hence the Hebrew population just kept growing fast so that Pharoah made a decree saying that all mothers must throw new born boys into the river!
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