The Israelites must have decided to stay after the famine because they had it really good under Joseph's rule. They also must have figured this is the best land and best place to be in case another famine comes.
So they stayed and stayed and grew in number and forgot to be gracious guests and didn't want to pay tribute or give back to Egypt.
The party and free ride was over when Joseph died a new Pharaoh took the throne.
The Israelites had to be forced to do the decent thing they were supposed to do anyway.
Since the Israelites were in great need and helped out by the Egyptians, they were supposed to be the servants of the Egyptians in exchange. This was the normal way** to repay such kindness.
When the Israelites were finally forced to pay up, they thought they were being treated unfairly despite all they had been freely given to them for decades. In this instance, there is no “woe is me” slavery that took place. In effect, the Israelites were forced to perform community service to work off their debt to Egypt.
Same also as work release program.
At worse, they became indentured servants due to their indebtedness. **For instance when Jacob had to be his uncle's servant for 14 years in order to get Rachel for his wife.
Who Did They Israelites Have Children With?
They started out with seventy people and ended up with hundreds of thousands.Were they having children with their siblings, first and second cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, grandchildren? Perhaps it was with Egyptians?
Or maybe other people who were coming into Egypt.
Or were the Israelites going and forth back home to Canaan and getting married? No matter what the answer is, the Canaanites, Israelites and Egyptians are still the same people under different names, and so are all the people in all bibles and all the people in the world today.
Dem White Jews
First of all the Israelite Canaanites were not Hebrews or Jews when they went into Egypt.What made them Hebrew Jews? The religion. Where did they get the religion? Egypt. If being a Hebrew Jew was due to the religion they already had before entering Egypt, they would have already been Hebrew Jews but they were not. So how did Israelites from Canaan, supposedly start out as white people, then go into Egypt for hundreds of years and remain white despite the high potential for intermarriage, then those Israelites exodus from Egypt and mix with many groups of people per the Judaeo-Christian bible, and still remain looking like the white jews of today who claim to be original and claim to be the ones who started the religion based on serving the God Iu-em-hept and also claim to be the first Hebrews? (Judges 3) For instance Judges 1:21 tells us the tribe of Benjamin did not drive their family the Jebusite Canaanites out of Jerusalem who still live among the Benjamin Israelite Canaanites. Jerusalem was formerly called Jebusi.