Overview of Exodus 1–3 (KJV)

The children of Israel multiplied greatly in Egypt after Joseph’s death.
A new Pharaoh arose who did not know Joseph.
Fearing their numbers, he oppressed them with hard bondage.
Despite affliction, they continued to grow.
Pharaoh commanded that all Hebrew baby boys be killed, but the midwives (Shiphrah and Puah) feared God and disobeyed him.

Moses was born to a Levite family. His mother hid him for three months.
When she could no longer hide him, she placed him in an ark of bulrushes on the Nile.
Pharaoh’s daughter found him and raised him as her own son.
As an adult, Moses saw an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew and killed the Egyptian, hiding him in the sand.
When Pharaoh heard, Moses fled to Midian.
In Midian, Moses defended the daughters of Reuel (Jethro) at a well and was given Zipporah as wife.
The Israelites groaned under bondage, and God heard their cry, remembering His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Moses, tending Jethro’s flock, came to Mount Horeb (Sinai).
There, the angel of the LORD appeared in a burning bush that was not consumed.
God called to Moses, commissioning him to deliver Israel from Egypt.
Moses hesitated, asking “Who am I?” and “What shall I say unto them?”
God revealed His name: “I AM THAT I AM.”
God promised to be with Moses, to deliver Israel with mighty wonders, and to bring them to a land flowing with milk and honey.