Exodus 1:22

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Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."

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The Exodus RouteThe route of the Israelites out of Egypt through the Sinai wilderness toward Canaan.

Historical maps are public-domain atlas plates, digitized by Wikimedia Commons.

Egypt was the land where Israel lived under Pharaoh’s oppression; the Nile, Egypt’s great river, became the place where he ordered Hebrew boys drowned. Rameses, likely the royal center associated with the Israelites’ forced labor, represents the Egyptian setting of Pharaoh’s escalating cruelty.

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Exodus 1:22 mentions Egypt, Nile and Rameses.

Photo of Egypt — Egypt · Ricardo Liberato