BRAGADAYJAH 167

Scripture does not tell us a great deal; indeed it tells us nothing about young Moses’ early days in Pharaoh’s household growing up as his grandson. But it is a reasonable inference that he would have played at, if not, on the Pharaoh’s knee and have the run of the house in his early days. As he grew older he would have been taught to fight with spear, sword and javelin; and he would have had access to the King’s own library, art and literature. As he grew older too, he would have seen his face in the mirror and found out that his was not a typical Egyptian face; but then again maybe his striking good looks overshadowed if not entirely concealed his Jewish ancestry. In addition he would have seen his suffering brethren and marked the physical similarity he had with them, and would have been left in no doubt that he was indeed a Hebrew. Then one day it all came to a head. He saw an Egyptian smiting one of his fellow Hebrews; and after looking around to make sure that no one was watching, he slew the Egyptian, one of Pharaoh’s servants and hid the body in the sand. Well no one saw him he thought; but someone did see him; not one of the Pharaoh’s soldiers, or one of his servants or one of his spies; but one of Moses very brethren out of regard for whom he had acted. So it came to pass that the very next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting, and he stepped in the middle and verbally chastised the aggressor. “Why are you beating up on your fellow,” Moses asked him, whereupon the aggressor turned on Moses and asked him, “Who made you a judge over us? Do you intend to kill me the way you killed the Egyptian?” Upon hearing that, Moses realized that his secret was no secret, and felt it was only a matter of time before the matter would reach the ears of the Pharaoh, whereupon his own life would be in grave danger. Sure enough, the Pharaoh did hear of the matter and wanted to kill Moses; but be this time, Moses had fled the country. More