The Egyptians convinced the Jews to work by pretending that Pharaoh, himself, was working: Sotah 11a
The Egyptians used soft speech ["Peh Rach"] to convince the Jews to work: Sotah 11a-b
The Servitude started out gently, then gradually worsened: Pesachim 39a
The work became crushing ["Perichah"]: Sotah 11b
The buildings the Jews constructed were called "Miskinot" either because they impoverished the Egyptians [as the Jews looted Egypt in the end] or because they endangered the Egyptians [killing them in the Sea]: Sotah 11a
Gratitude for the Egyptian hostelry, despite the slavery: Pesachim 118b
On Rosh HaShanah, the slavery in Egypt halted: Rosh HaShanah 11a, 11b
The Jews worked on places called Pitom and Ramses, names which derived from the impossibility of building on that soft land: Sotah 11a
As the Jews suffered, Gd informed them with Divine inspiration that so they would multiply: Sotah 11a
The Jews were put to work in construction first, and then in the fields: Sotah 11b
The Egyptians gave men the work of women, and women the work of men: Sotah 11b
The Egyptians were horrified as they saw the Jews multiply; the Jews seemed like thorns in them: Sotah 11a
Pharaoh
Pharaoh's height and the length of his beard: Moed Katan 18a
Pharaoh was a sorcerer: Moed Katan 18a
When Pharaoh said, "Let us be clever in dealing with Him," he was referring to Gd. He plotted to destroy the Jews with water, throwing the baby boys in, figuring that Gd had sworn never to bring another flood. In truth, Gd had only sworn against flooding the whole world. Alternatively, this plot was thwarted when the Egyptians ran into the seabed, themselves: Sotah 11a
When Pharaoh said, "Lest they become many...and leave the land," he was euphemistically warning that the Jews might force the Egyptians to leave the land: Sotah 11a
Whether the "new king" mentioned in the Torah was actually a new king, or was the same king with new decrees: Eruvin 53a; Sotah 11a
Whether the Pharoah who Moshe faced only acted as though he didn't know about Yosef's deeds on behalf of Egypt, or really didn't know: Eruvin 53a; Sotah 11a
Pharaoh was the first in Egypt to plot against the Jews, and so he was the first punished (in the plague of Frogs): Sotah 11a
Bilaam, Job and Yitro were Pharaoh's advisors. Bilaam said to kill the Jewish babies, and so he was killed. Job was silent and so he was doomed to suffer. Yitro rebelled and fled, and so he merited to have children who would sit on the High Court [Sanhedrin]: Sotah 11a
Pharaoh made three decrees: 1. Have the Jewish midwives kill Jewish baby boys, then 2. Throw all Jewish boys in the river, and then 3. Throw all boys, even the Egyptians in the river: Sotah 12a
Pharaoh had the Egyptians bring crying babies by Jewish tents, so that the Jewish babies would also cry, and would thus be detected: Sotah 12a
Pharaoh had the boys thrown in the river because his astrologers informed him that the Jews' redeemer would die by water. In fact, this prophecy referred to Moses's problem with the Waters of Merivah, when he hit the rock: Sotah 12b
Pharoah's Daughter, Batyah
She was also known as "Yehudit": Megillah 13a
She abandoned idolatry before she found Moshe: Megillah 13a [2x]; Sotah 12b
The lengthening of Batyah's arm, to reach Moshe: Megillah 15b; Sotah 12b
Batyah's maidservants protested against her rescue of Moshe, because she was violating her father's decree. The angel Gavriel struck them dead: Sotah 12b
One maidservant remained alive, because royalty should not walk alone: Sotah 12b
Batyah saw Gd's Presence in the ark with Moshe: Sotah 12b
Batyah knew Moses was Jewish when she saw that he was circumcised: Sotah 12b
Batyah prophesied, without knowing she was doing so, predicting that Moses would be the last to be put in the water; the decree ended that day: Sotah 12b
A quirk in Batyah's speech to Yocheved prophesied, unknowingly, that Yocheved was Moses's mother: Sotah 12b
The Jewish Midwives
These midwives were either Yocheved and her ultimate daughter-in-law Elisheva, or Yocheved and her daughter Miriam: Sotah 11b
The name, "Shifrah," referred to taking care of children, or to the fact that the Jews multiplied in her days: Sotah 11b
The name, "Puah," referred to the sounds she made for the children, or to her [Miriam's] prophecy that her mother would give birth to the redeemer of the Jews: Sotah 11b
Pharaoh's advice to the Jewish midwives, to know whether a woman was ready to give birth or not, and whether it would be a boy or not: Sotah 11b
Pharaoh propositioned the Jewish midwives, but they turned him down: Sotah 11b
The midwives fed and supported the Jewish children: Sotah 11b
The midwives claimed that Jewish women had been compared to animals in Jacob's blessings, and so they did not need midwives, just as animals do not need midwives: Sotah 11b
Gd rewarded the midwives with houses of priesthood through Moses and Aaron
Gd rewarded the midwives with houses of royalty as King David was known as a descendant of Efrat, and Efrat was another name for Miriam: Sotah 11b
The State of the Jews in Egypt
The Jews were redeemed as a reward for their righteous women: Sotah 11b
The extremes to which the Jewish women went, and the assistance Gd provided, to birth and raise the next generation of Jews in Egypt: Sotah 11b
Moses's Family and his Birth
Amram, Moshe's father, was the leader of his generation: Sotah 12a
Yocheved, Moshe's mother, was born when the Jews entered Egypt: Sotah 12a
Amram returned to his wife, Yocheved, on the advice of his daughter, Miriam: Sotah 12a
Amram's rationale in separating from Yocheved, and Miriam's response: Sotah 12a
When Amram and Yocheved separated, so did everyone else: Sotah 12a
When Amram reunited with Yocheved, he did so with great fanfare: Sotah 12a
When Amram reunited with Yocheved, her youth was restored to her even though she was 130 years old: Sotah 12a
Yocheved was pregnant with Moses from before she and Amram had separated, and so the Egyptians, counting from their reunion, were off by three months. As such, Yocheved was able to hide Moses for three months: Sotah 12a
The birth of Moses was painless for Yocheved, due to her righteousness: Sotah 12a
Date of Moses's Birth: Megillah 13b; Kiddushin 38a; Sotah 12b
Moses was born in a leap year: Sotah 12b
When Moses was born, the house was filled with light: Megillah 14a; Sotah 12a, 13a
When Moses was born and the house filled with light, Amram kissed Miriam's head and said, "Your prophecy is fulfilled!" Then when Moses was thrown into the sea, Amram slapped her and said, "Daughter, where is your prophecy now?!": Sotah 13a
Miriam's prophecy on the birth of Moses, and its fulfillment: Megillah 14a; Sotah 11b, 12b-13a
They used reeds, rather than wood, for Moses's ark either because the righteous are very careful with their money, so that they won't come to theft, or because soft material would withstand harsh and soft forces: Sotah 12a
The lining of the ark was arranged so that Moses wouldn't smell the foul-smelling materials: Sotah 12a
Moses was either placed in Yam Suf, or just in a reedy area: Sotah 12a-b
Moses was termed a "youth [adolescent]" in the ark either because of his deep voice or because of a wedding canopy his mother made for him in the ark, fearing she would never see him get married: Sotah 12b
Miriam waited for an hour to see whether her brother Moses would be all right (in his ark on the river), and so the Jewish people waited seven days for her while she had tzaraat, and did not travel without her: Sotah 9b, 11a
When the Torah describes how Miriam waited to guard Moshe on the water, the verse also refers to Gd's Manifestation [Shechinah] being there, too: Sotah 11a
When Moses was put into the sea, Pharaoh's astrologers told Pharaoh there was no more need to throw children into the sea: Sotah 12b
Moses was put into the sea on the 21st of Nisan, and the angels protested that he shouldn't suffer on the water on the date when he was destined to sing to Gd by the Sea: Sotah 12b
Moses was put into the sea on the 6th of Sivan, and the angels protested that he shouldn't suffer on the water on the date when he was destined to receive the Torah: Sotah 12b
Moses refused to nurse from the Egyptian women, as they had eaten non-Kosher food, and so Miriam could suggest that a Jewish woman be brought for him: Sotah 12b
Gd gave Moshe the Torah because he weaned himself from non-Kosher milk: Sotah 12b
Calculating that the plagues began in the Month of Nisan: Rosh HaShanah 2b-3a, 11a, 11b
Whether the Jews left Egypt on a Thursday or a Friday: Shabbat 87b, 88a
Timing of the Plague killing the First-born: Berachot 3b-4a
Egyptian and Jewish "Chipazon [Haste]" at the Jews' Departure: Berachot 9a
The timing and schedule of the Redemption: Berachot 9a
Gd's request that the Jews loot Egypt: Berachot 9a-b
The looting of Egypt: Berachot 9b
When the Jews were looting Egypt, Moshe was getting Joseph's bones, due to his love for Mitzvot: Sotah 13a
Serach bat Asher told Moses about Joseph's burial in the Nile: Sotah 13a
Alternatively, Joseph's coffin was in a royal Egyptian mausoleum: Sotah 13a
Moses calling up Joseph's bones, making their iron container float up: Sotah 13a
Joseph's descendants said "Let the nation take care of Joseph's body; it is a greater honor to have more people involved." The Jews said "Let Moses do it; it is a greater honor to have a greater person do it": Sotah 13b
The Jewish people get the credit for taking Joseph out of Egypt, because they completed the job after Moshe died: Sotah 13b
Gd said He would punish the Egyptians with three "cups." The first was in the time of Moshe, the second in the time of Pharaoh Nechoh, and the third will be in the time of the Messiah: Sotah 9a
Gd's promise of "Eh--yeh Asher Eh--yeh [I will be that I will be]": Berachot 9b