During their years of slavery in Egypt, the Israelites increased greatly in number, and Pharaoh decreed that all Hebrew male babies were to be destroyed at birth.
Egiptuses orjuses veedetud aastatel sai Iisraeli rahvas väga arvukaks, mistõttu vaarao käskis, et kõik heebrealaste vastsündinud poisslapsed tuleb surmata.