A profound encounter
Is there more to life than the humdrum? At forty, Moses yearned to free his people. Pharaoh’s harsh treatment of the Hebrews angered him, and after he watched an Egyptian overseer whip a Hebrew slave, he killed the Egyptian. The Hebrews perceived this differently. Moses was an Egyptian prince, Pharaoh’s adopted grandson, despite his Hebrew birth. He didn’t belong in either world because he had a foot in both. When Pharaoh heard of the murder, he wanted Moses dead. Disgraced and alone, Moses fled into the desert as far as Midian (possibly part of modern-day Saudi Arabia, close to t...