Chp. 1 verse 1 - Chp. 2 verse 1: The book begins with the names of the sons of Yaakov who came down to Egypt. The B'nai Yisrael multiplied miraculously. The Egyptians embittered their lives. Pharaoh tries to get the Jewish midwives to kill the male babies but they refuse. So then he has all male Jewish babies thrown into the Nile, but he allows the females to live.