Abraham was the first person to acknowledge a monotheistic God. God promised that his family would become a great nation, but they would suffer a lot before that happened. Generations later, Abraham’s descendents lived as slaves in Egypt, where the Pharaoh ordered that Jewish baby boys be drowned in the Nile.

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Moses was supposed to be drowned, but a kind woman saved him, and he was adopted by the Pharaoh’s daughter and raised in the palace. One day, Moses saw an Egyptian overseer beating a Jewish slave. He killed the Egyptian and was forced to flee to the desert, where a burning bush told him to lead the Jews to freedom. 


haggadah Section: -- Exodus Story