Exodus 1-3

The Next Generation
Joseph's generation died, but the Israelites continued to multiply to the point that the new king of Egypt, who did not know Joseph, got scared that they would become too powerful.  He made them slave laborers.  He also told the midwives to kill all the male babies.  The midwives feared God and refused to do so, telling the king that the Israeli women were "too vigorous" and gave birth before the midwives could arrive.

God blessed the Israelites and the midwives, giving them many offspring.  Then Pharoah commanded that all Israeli boy babies be thrown into the Nile.

Moses
One Levite woman had a baby boy and hid him for three months. Finally, when she could no longer hide him, she put him the Nile in a basket while her daughter looked on.  Pharoah's daughter happened to find the baby and felt sorry for him.  The Levite's daughter asked Pharoah whether she wanted someone to nurse the baby.  Finally, the boy's own mother became the servant that nursed the baby.  Pharoah's daughter named the baby Moses.

One day, after Moses had grown up, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave.  He killed the Egyptian.  The next day, he saw some Hebrews fighting.  When he tried to break it up, they asked him whether he was going to kill them too, like he killed the Egyptian.  When Pharaoh found out about this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses escaped to Midian.  On his way, he rescued some women from shepherds who were trying to drive the women away from the water well.  He ended up meeting the father of the women who gave him one of the daughters, Zipporah, as a bride.  They had a son.

Meanwhile, Pharoah had a died.  However, the Israelites were still groaning under extreme slavery.

Moses was still in Midian when God called Moses through a burning bush.  God told Moses that he saw that the Israelites were suffering.  He wanted to send Moses to go free the Israelites.  He would free the Israelites and bring them to a land "flowing with milk and honey."  Moses did not feel qualified and resisted, but God promised that He would be with Moses.  He told Moses he would perform all theses signs and strike the Egyptians so they would finally let the Israelites go.  The Israelites would also not leave empty-handed.  Instead, the Egyptians would give them their  jewels, etc.