When Pharaoh asked the midwives why they had disobeyed his orders, the midwives told him the Hebrew women had easier labors than Egyptian women and delivered their babies before the midwife arrived.

Many Sunni Muslims fast during this day, because it is recorded in the hadith that Musa ( Moses ) and his people obtained a victory over the Egyptian Pharaoh on the 10th day of Muharram ; accordingly Islamic prophet Muhammad asked Muslims to fast on this day, and also a day extra either before or after, so that they are not similar to Jews ( since, according to him, Jews used to fast for one day due to the same reason, and many practices recorded in the hadith are specifically performed to avoid any apparent similarity to those of contemporary neighbouring Jews and Christians ).

When the Pharaoh asked who vandalized his sarcophagus, the burning bush tells him that Bart did it.

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In the infliction of the remaining plagues, he appears to have acted merely as the attendant of Moses, whose outstretched rod drew the divine wrath upon the Pharaoh and his subjects ( Exodus 9: 23, 10: 13, 22 ).

The Exodus Rabbah argues that when the Pharaoh instructed midwives to throw male children into the Nile, Amram divorced Jochebed, who was three months pregnant with Moses at the time, arguing that there was no justification for the Israelite men to father children if they were just to be killed ; however, the text goes on to state that Miriam, his daughter, chided him for his lack of care for his wife's feelings, persuading him to recant and marry Jochebed again.

:* Shemot, on Exodus 1-5: Affliction in Egypt, Moses is found and called, Pharaoh

Moses and his brother Aaron do so, but Pharaoh refuses.

It describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 7: 16: " And the Lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me ", in which God commands Moses to demand the release of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.

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According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Children of Israel, were increasing in number and the Egyptian Pharaoh was worried that they might help Egypt's enemies.

Moses ' Hebrew mother, Jochebed, hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed, and the child was adopted as a foundling by the Egyptian royal family.

In the Exodus account, the birth of Moses occurred at a time when an unnamed Egyptian Pharaoh had commanded that all male Hebrew children born be killed by drowning in the river Nile.

Moses would not be able to become Pharaoh because he was not the ' blood ' son of Bithiah, and he was the youngest.

Moses soon discovered that the affair was known, and that Pharaoh was likely to put him to death for it ; he then fled from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula.

Moses before the Pharaoh, a 6th century miniature from the Syriac Bible of Paris.

Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him that the Lord God of Israel wanted Pharaoh to permit the Israelites to celebrate a feast in the wilderness.

They gained a second hearing with Pharaoh and changed Moses ' rod into a serpent, but Pharaoh's magicians did the same with their rods.

Moses and Aaron met Pharaoh at the Nile riverbank, and Moses had Aaron turn the river to blood, but Pharaoh's magicians could do the same.

Eventually Pharaoh let the Hebrews depart after Moses ' God sent ten plagues upon the Egyptians.

He names the princess who adopted Moses as Merris, wife of Pharaoh Chenephres.

The Qur ' an's account has emphasized Moses ' mission to invite the Pharaoh to accept God's divine message as well as give salvation to the Israelites.

:" The LORD said to Moses, " When you return to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders I have given you the power to do.

" The life of Moses being threatened by Pharaoh is another example.

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Pharaoh then agrees to let the Israelites go.

Pharaoh let the Hebrew nation go, effectively making them free people for the second half of the night.

Another reading of Hosea's prophetic declaration is that it only recounts God summoning of the nation of Israel out of Egypt during the Exodus, referring to Israel as God's son in accordance with Moses ' declaration to Pharaoh: " Israel is my first-born son ; let my son go, that he may serve me " ().

" By this it is meant that God made Pharaoh resolve not to let the Israelite slaves leave Egypt, in order to bring judgment against Pharaoh and demonstrate his power: "' Go to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his officials so that I may perform these miraculous signs of mine among them '" ( Exodus 10: 1 ).

A number of scholars have argued that the ancient Israelites incorporated the combat myth into their religious imagery, such as the figures of Leviathan and Rahab, the Song of the Sea, Isaiah 51: 9-10's description of God's deliverance of his people from Babylon, and the portrayals of enemies such as Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar.

Egypt's Pharaoh, fearful of the Israelites ' numbers, orders that all newborn boys be thrown into the Nile.

Yahweh causes Pharaoh to change his mind about allowing the Israelites to depart ; he pursues them, but God destroys the Egyptian army at the crossing of the Red Sea ( Yam Suf ) and the Israelites celebrate Yahweh's victory.

Pharaoh decided against letting the Israelites leave to observe the feast.

When the Pharaoh freed the Israelites, it is said that they left in such a hurry that they could not wait for bread dough to rise ( leaven ).

The biblical books Exodus and Numeri refer to Pi-hahiroth as the place where the Israelites encamped between Baal-zephon and Migdol while awaiting an attack by Pharaoh, prior to crossing the Red Sea.

While the Israelites / Hebrews were captives in Egypt, Moses killed an Egyptian who was striking a Hebrew, for which offense Pharaoh sought to kill Moses.

The Quran states that Moses was sent by to the Pharaoh of Egypt and the Israelites for guidance and warning.

According to Islamic tradition, Moses was born into a family of Israelites living in Egypt, in a time when the ruling Pharaoh had enslaved the Israelites after the time of the prophet Joseph ( Yusuf ).

Around the time of Moses ' birth, Islamic literature states that the Pharaoh had a dream, in which he saw fire coming from the city of Jerusalem, which burnt everything in his kingdom except that of the Israelites.

When the Pharaoah described his dream to his priests and soothsayers, they predicted that the fall of the Pharaoh would be brought about by a boy from the Israelites.

God called to Moses out of the midst of the bush, and told him that He has heard the affliction of his people in Egypt, and gives Moses orders to speak to Pharaoh and to lead the Israelites out of Egypt ( Exod 3: 3-12 ).

The text portrays Yahweh as telling Moses that he is sending him to the ( unspecified ) Pharaoh in order to bring the Israelites out of Egypt, an action that Yahweh is described as having decided upon as a result of noticing that the Israelites were being oppressed by the Egyptians.

The Plagues of Egypt (), also called the Ten Plagues () or the Biblical Plagues, were ten calamities that, according to the biblical Book of Exodus, Israel's God, Yahweh, inflicted upon Egypt to persuade Pharaoh to release the ill-treated Israelites from slavery.

When Pharaoh enslaved the Children of Israel, the Egyptians appointed conscription officers over the Israelites to crush their spirits with hard labor.

The Israelites were to build up the cities of Pithom and Ra ' amses as supply centers for Pharaoh.