Bible+Quotes

1 These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household: 2 Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, 3 Is'sachar Zeb'ulun, and Benjamin, 4 Dan and Naph'tali, Gad and Asher. 5 All the offspring of Jacob were seventy persons; Joseph was already in Egypt. 6 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation. 7 But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them. 8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. 9 And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. 10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land." 11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses. 12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel. 13 So they made the people of Israel serve with rigor, 14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field; in all their work they made them serve with rigor.
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-"But the descendants of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong; so that the land was filled with them." (Exodus 1:7) Many Semitic tribes lived in Northern Egypt during the time of the Exodus, it would make sense that they had all descended from the same people - the sons of Jacob.

"Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us. Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war befall us, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."-Exodus 1: 9 "In the end, the only account we have of the migration from Egypt is the Hebrew account."-Egypt and the Wanderings, Jewish Virtual Library, paragraph 8 In ancient Egypt, some Pharaohs, especially those in the New Kingdom, drove as many foreigners out of Egypt as they could - but there isn't evidence of an especially powerful Hebrew race that gave the Egyptians trouble.

"11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens; and they built for Pharaoh store-cities, Pithom and Ra-am'ses." Foreigners WERE oppressed in Northern Egypt - and labor taxes focused heavily on the poor and the foreigners - it would make sense if the Hebrews were some of them.

-Laws and practices of the Hebrew people "settled down into a definite form" (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebegypt.html) during the migration