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A liberator, leader, lawgiver, prophet, and historian. Moses is considered one of the greatest figures of the Bible.
The birth of Moses occurred at a time when the current Egyptian Pharaoh had commanded that all male children born to Hebrew slaves should be killed by drowning in the Nile.
His mother, Jochebed, kept him concealed for three months. When she could keep him hidden no longer, rather than deliver him to be killed, she set him adrift on the Nile river in a small craft of bulrushes coated in pitch. The daughter of the Pharaoh discovered the baby and adopted him as her son, and named him Moses.
Moses led the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and into the desert, and received the Torah from God on Mount Sinai.
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