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We tell this story every year—not because it’s new, but to remember.
According to the Book of Exodus, there was a famine in the land of Canaan (later known as Israel). Because of this famine, the Hebrew patriarch Jacob traveled with his extended family to Egypt to both live in better conditions and be with his son Joseph. Joseph’s wisdom had impressed the Pharaoh of Egypt to the point that he was appointed Viceroy of Egypt, which was second in power only to the Pharaoh.
The next 430 years in Egypt saw the Israelites prosper and rapidly multiply to about 3 million people. These numbers were so great, a new Pharaoh became nervous that the Israelites were becoming too many in number to control and thought they might side with Egypt’s enemies in case of war. The Pharaoh decreed that the Israelites should be enslaved to build cities and roads for him . The Israelites were then confined to the land area of Goshen, which was the fertile land that was east of the Nile delta and west of the border of Canaan.
As slaves, the lives of our ancestors were embittered. Moses went to Pharaoh to plead for the Jews to be freed from slavery. Ten times, Moses asked Pharaoh, Let My People Go.
Ten times, Pharaoh denied him.
And God sent plagues to the people of Egypt to convince Pharaoh to relent.
(It did not end well for Pharaoh.)
