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The story Exodus is the second book in the Bible that took place around 800 B.C. and was written down around 500B.C. The title “Exodus” comes from the Greek word “going out”, that plays an important part in this book. This book first starts out on the land of Egypt. The Egyptian king was scared of the Israelites high population sharing this land. Due to the king’s fear of the Israelites someday taking over the hierarchy of Egypt, he decides to put all Israelites into slavery. He demands them to build the city’s of Pithom and Rameses where he will store his supplies hoping that it will slow down the Israelites population. The king plan fails and the Israelites population increases heavily. The king then gave a command to the whole nation and said, “As soon as a Hebrew boy is born, throw him into the Nile River.” (1:22) Then this beautiful Hebrew baby boy was born and was hidden by his mother for three months. Then came the time when she had to let the beautiful baby go, she put him into a basket made of reeds and set him to sail along the Nile River. The king’s daughter found him and adopted him and gave him his name “Moses”, which means “I pulled him out of water”. Moses becomes an important character