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Between the latest scene in Genesis and the opening scene in Exodus lies a great silence, broken only by the sighing and the groans of the people whose ancestors had, generations before, been welcomed for Joseph's sake to the land of Egypt. Crushed and in a foreign land, they are learning the vicissitudes of life that they may learn the grace and power of their God. In the background of their sorrow lies the Promised Land-a dear memory and a forlorn hope. Yet back to that land they must be brought; for it is there, after the discipline of Egypt, that they will do the work for the world which God has given them to do. So, in His own wondrous way, God raises up Moses, a truly gigantic figure; next to our Lord perhaps the most important personality in the history of religion.
It is our purpose to study the history of this man Moses. Where do we find it? What are the sources for his life and his work? Let us seek a short answer to that question first of all.