Moses said that he could not speak eloquently, so God allowed Aaron, his elder brother, to become his spokesperson.
God sent Moses back to Egypt to demand the release of the Israelites from slavery.
After killing an Egyptian slave-master who was beating a Hebrew, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he encountered the Angel of the Lord, speaking to him from within a burning bush on Mount Horeb, which he regarded as the Mountain of God. Through Pharaoh's daughter (identified as Queen Bithia in the Midrash), the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile and grew up with the Egyptian royal family. Moses' Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him when Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites. Īccording to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, an enslaved minority, were increasing in population and, as a result, the Egyptian Pharaoh worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt's enemies. According to both the Bible and the Quran, Moses was the leader of the Israelites and lawgiver to whom the authorship, or 'acquisition from heaven', of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible) is attributed. Moses ( / ˈ m oʊ z ɪ z, - z ɪ s/) is considered the most important prophet in Judaism and one of the most important prophets in Christianity, Islam, the Druze faith, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
