Right. So then, this one woman, Yocheved, she bears a son. And she takes that son down to the Nile, but see, she's got this basket. She puts the baby in the basket and floats him down the river so he won't drown, and the Pharaoh's daughter--so, a princess--picks him up. Decides to adopt him, names him Moses.

She decides to raise the kid alongside her own son, Ramses, and he grows up pretty much in the lap of luxury, a prince of Egypt. One day, though, he sees an Egyptian overseer strike down an Israelite slave, and that's it, he's had enough. He kills the guy, and then he has to run or face the death penalty. So he runs out into the desert, marries a nice girl, gets a few years of peaceful shepherding under his belt, and then God appears in a burning bush and starts talking to him.

Which, y'know, freaks the guy out a little.