The document summarizes the story of Moses' birth and early life according to the book of Exodus in the Bible. It describes how the Israelites multiplied greatly in Egypt but then a new Pharaoh enslaved them, forcing them to perform hard labor making bricks. This Pharaoh then issued a decree that all Hebrew boy babies be killed by throwing them into the Nile river. Moses was born and his mother hid him for three months, but then placed the baby in a basket in the reeds of the river to save him, where he was discovered and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter.