Exodus chapter 1

After reading chapter 1:

*We are reminded of the twelve sons of Jacob (Israel) and his seventy direct descendents,  who all ended up in Egypt. They all died, but their descendents continued to multiply and prosper. A new king who did not remember Joseph came into power. It is no wonder he didn't remember; according to Exodus 12:40, 430 years went by before the Israelites left Egypt, making it approximately 1337 B.C.E. (If you count from the date that the Israelite clan was supposed to have entered Egypt and use Bishop Ussher's problematic year of creation, 4004 B.C.E. ) This was the time of Amenhotep IV, commonly known as Akhenaten. However, he is not one of the popular choices for the possible Pharaoh of Exodus. Sigmund Freud connected the exodus with Akhenaten in his book Moses and Monotheism.  The events of this  first chapter would have been about 80 years before the exodus. The Pharoah is never named in the book of Exodus.

*This new king was worried about how numerous the Israelites were becoming. He didn't want them to join forces with an enemy and start a war. So, he decided to enslave them and force them to build the cities of Pithom and Rameses. The more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied, the more they multiplied, the more they were oppressed. Then the king spoke to the Hebrew midwives,( who are named  even though the Pharoah is not ) and told them to kill all the male babies that were born to the Hebrews when they were in attendance.

*The midwives did not kill the baby boys because they were afraid of God. They told Pharoah that Hebrew women easily bore healthy children without the help of midwives. The people continued to increase in number. Then the Pharoah gave an order to all his people to throw every boy that was born into the Nile River. The text doesn't say every Hebrew boy, but that is assumed.

*There is no concrete historical evidence of a large group of Israelites living in Ancient Egypt, or being enslaved by the Egyptians.