a) The fact of their action, v.23aWhen Moses was born to Amram (Ex. 6:20) and Jochebed (Levites of the clan of Kohath), the times were harsh as the Egyptians imposed an ethnic cleansing program to end the threat of the growing foreign Semite peoples by destroying males at birth (girls would later marry Egyptians and the Semites would blur into Egyptian culture in a generation [Ex. 1:8-22]).