In the beginning of Exodus the Israelites are oppressed by Egypt's new Pharaoh. They are forced into hard labor by Pharaoh in order to tame them in case war broke out. It was this that began what would later be Moses crusade to get the Israelite people out of Egypt altogether.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus%201:8-14&version=NIV
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