Moses had just killed an Egyptian who was beating up one of his ‘brethren’ a Hebrew. According to Exodus chapter 2 verses 14 and 15 he feared Pharaoh and so he escaped to go into voluntary exile in the land of Midian.

As I have mentioned previously, the Bible gives us very little information about his life and times. The book of Exodus is extremely vague about the actual person.

All we basically know from the first 10 verses is about the circumstances surrounding his birth and subsequent adoption into the ranks of the royal family. By officially adopting Moses, Pharaoh’s daughter had ensured that he would be recognized as a Prince of Egypt.

Exodus 2:11 catapults us straight into the future, 40 years later, with no details of the intervening years at all. To save you the inconvenience of looking up the reference here are the 5 verses that have really intrigued me.

The scripture is taken from ‘the New King James Version’.Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc

” Now it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out to his brethren and looked at their burdens. And he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his brethren.

So he looked this way and that way, and when he saw no one,he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

And when he went out the second day, behold, two Hebrew men were fighting, and he said to the one who did the wrong, “Why are you striking your companion?” Then he said, “Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” So Moses feared and said, “Surely this thing is known!”

When Pharaoh heard of this matter, he sought to kill him. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian; and he sat down by a well.”

These 5 verses seem to me to hold a key to some sort of understanding, but, which door does it open? We are seeking the truth, and all I can offer is a speculative series of events as they might have occurred.

I must leave it up to you, the individual, to decide for yourself what you want to choose to believe. Afterall, there are many theories going around at the present time.

In the following chapters we can explore my scenario together. I will continue with my own line of reasoning in this hypothetical biography of his life.

Egypt at the time of Moses

Did it really take him forty years to discover his Hebrew roots? Could he, who was taught all the wisdom of the Egyptians be so naïve as to believe that the murder of an overseer would go undetected?

Then there is the question of the fear that he exhibited which precipitated his flight from Egypt. Which of the two Pharaohs ruling at that time was he afraid of? Could it have been his lifelong friend, Amenhotep III, or his son Akhenaton, who was co-regent at the time of the event.

Or, was there some other motive that prompted him to flee the land of his birth? But first, before I continue with my hypothesis. Allow me to ask you a question. You have read what I have to say up to this point, so there is no doubt that you have an obvious interest as a seeker of truth to expand your own knowledge about the origins of religion and our Bible in particular.

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