Exodus leader, Israel's lawgiver
Moses
A murderer hiding in the desert was sent back to free a nation.
Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt. — Exodus 3:10
A Hebrew mother hid her baby three months, then set him in an ark of bulrushes at the river's edge, and Pharaoh's daughter drew him out and raised him as her own. Grown, Moses saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, killed the man, hid the body, and ran for his life when it came out. He spent forty years in Midian keeping sheep, married, and had a son, and by then he was eighty years old and finished. Then a bush burned without being consumed, and God told him to go to Pharaoh. Moses argued. He said he was not eloquent and asked God to send somebody else, and God sent him anyway with his brother Aaron to speak for him. He stood before Pharaoh through ten plagues, stretched his rod over the sea, led a complaining nation forty years through the wilderness, and came down from Sinai with his face shining. He saw the promised land from a mountain, but God buried him before Israel crossed over.
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