Parsha Facts

PARSHA FACTS

Concepts

• Slavery
• Moshe assumes leadership
• Burning Bush

People

• Moshe
• Yocheved
• Bas Paroh - Basya

Places

• Mitzrayim
• Nile river

Mitzvos

• None in the Parsha

Years from Creation

Timeline

• 2309 Death of Yosef
• 2331 Death of Levi (last of the 12 brothers); slavery begins
• 2361 Birth of Miriam; “harsh” slavery begins
• 2363 “New” Paroh begins issuing decrees against the Jews
• 2365 Aharon born
• 2368-7th Adar Moshe born
• 6th Sivan Moshe put into a basket into the Nile; drawn out of the Nile by Basya, daughter of Paroh
• Childhood and Maturity of Moshe; Moshe kills the Mitzri and leaves Egypt and goes to Kush
• 2395 Moshe becomes King of Kush at the age of 27 and rules for 40 years
• 2406 Yehoshua born
• 2418 B’nai Efraim revolt and leave Egypt and die in the desert
• 2428 Chur born
• 2435 Moshe left Kush and went to Yisro and married Tziporah
• 2436 Betzalel born