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After Moses had reached adulthood, he went to see how his brethren who were enslaved to the
Egyptians were faring. [9] Seeing an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, he killed the Egyptian and buried
the body in the sand, supposing that no one who knew about the incident would be disposed to talk
about it. [9] The next day, seeing two Hebrews quarreling, he endeavored to separate them,
whereupon the Hebrew who was wronging the other taunted Moses for slaying the Egyptian. [15]
Moses soon discovered from a higher source that the affair was known, and that Pharaoh was
likely to put him to death for it; he therefore made his escape over the Sinai Peninsula. [9] He
stopped at a well, where he protected seven shepherdesses from a band of rude shepherds. The
shepherdesses' father Hobab (also known as Raguel and Jethro [16] ), a priest of Midian [17] was
immensely grateful for this assistance Moses had given his daughters, and adopted him as his son,
gave his daughter Zipporah to him in marriage, and made him the superintendent of his
herds. [18][9][19] There he sojourned forty years, following the occupation of a shepherd, during
which time his son Gershom was born. [20][9] One day, Moses led his flock to Mount Horeb
(Exodus 3), usually identified with Mount Sinai — a mountain that was thought in the Middle
Ages to be located on the Sinai Peninsula, but that many scholars now believe was further east,
towards Moses' home of Midian. At Mount Horeb, he saw a burning bush that would not be
consumed. [9] When he turned aside to look more closely at the marvel, God spoke to him from the
bush, revealing his name to Moses. [9]
Leader of the Hebrews
Moses before the Pharaoh, a 6th century miniature from the Syriac Bible of Paris.
God commissioned Moses to go to Egypt and deliver his fellow Hebrews from bondage. God had
Moses practice transforming his rod into a serpent and inflicting and healing leprosy, and told him
that he could also pour river water on dry land to change the water to blood. [21][22] Moses then set
off for Egypt, was nearly killed by God because his son was not circumcised (The meaning of this
latter obscure passage is debatable, because of the ambiguous nature of the Hebrew and its abrupt
presence in the narrative. Several interpretations are therefore possible.), was met on the way by
his elder brother, Aaron, and gained a hearing with his oppressed kindred after they returned to
Egypt, who believed Moses and Aaron after they saw the signs that were performed in the midst of
the Israelite assembly. [23] It is also revealed that during Moses' absence, the Pharaoh of the
Oppression (sometimes identified with Ramesses II) had died, and been replaced by a new
Pharaoh, known as the Pharaoh of the Exodus. If Rameses II is the Pharaoh of the Oppression,
then this new Pharaoh would be Merneptah. Because the story the book of Exodus describes is
catastrophic for the Egyptians — involving horrible plagues, the loss of thousands of slaves, and