This will be a continuation of our examination of Moses, his life, and how God worked both in and through him with the events recorded in Exodus chapter 2 [read part 1 here]. To refresh his story and experiences up to this point: verse 2 records that he was born to Levite parents, foreshadowing his role as a spiritual leader and prophet to the Hebrew people as well as his brother Aaron later being named as the first high priest of God as stated by the law God would reveal to Moses later. Moses is hidden from the Egyptian Pharaoh for three months by his parents to save him from death, and is then placed in a basket placed in a river to send him away to safety; he was then discovered by the Pharaoh’s daughter, who takes him in to her family, ordering him weaned by his own mother in verse 9 and being named Moses in verse 10. Verse 11 shows that he went to see the Hebrews in captivity and saw an Egyptian beating one of the slaves - and in verse 12 we learn that Moses killed the Egyptian to protect them, with Acts 7:25 adding that Moses did so thinking that he would bring about God’s plan to free the Hebrew people. 

Moses is one of the most prevalent and quoted people in the Old Testament, and for a myriad of reasons: in addition to writing part of it, he was protected from birth by God, encountered and then grew in obedience with Him, was used by God to free the Hebrew people from slavery in Egypt and to demonstrate God’s supreme power through miracles designed to humble the most powerful nation on the face of the earth at the time. Moses led his people in God’s way, through the parting of the Red Sea and on towards the promised land; learning God’s commandments and laws directly from Him on Mount Sinai. Moses then used God’s instructions to oversee the construction of the ark of the covenant and the tabernacle, the establishment of His priesthood, and he also saw the consequences of not holding God’s commandments as holy firsthand. He led God’s people through the wilderness, whom he saw fall into sin with the golden calf, and then saw them repent and saw the mercy and grace of God as well as His wrath in justice.