This document provides an overview of Exodus chapter 1, which describes how the Israelites multiplied greatly in Egypt, causing the Egyptian Pharaoh to become worried and fearful. He then forces the Israelites into slavery and orders the Hebrew midwives to kill all male Israelite babies. However, the midwives fear God and disobey Pharaoh by letting the boys live. In response, Pharaoh commands the Egyptian people to throw all male Israelite babies into the Nile river.