Moses the Leader

Moses was a leader of the Hebrews and probably the most important figure in Judaism. He led the Hebrew people out of Egypt and into the Promise Land. His story is told in the book of Exodus, and begins when he was first born during the time that the pharaoh of Egypt declared that all male Hebrew babies were to be drowned at birth. Moses’ mother Yocheved, hid Moses and placed him in a basket in the reeds of the Nile River, where he was then found by the pharaoh’s daughter, who kept Moses and raised him as her own. In the story of Moses, he grows up and stumbles upon an Egyptian beating a Hebrew slave. Out of anger Moses murders the Egyptian, and flees to Midian to escape his crime (Hays, 2000). In Midian, Moses rests besides a well, where he sees seven daughters fetching water for their sheep. Shepherds come along and begin to harass the women. Moses does not agree with the shepherds’ actions. He scares them off and then gives water to the women. The young women tell their father, Reuel, of Moses’ kind actions. Reuel rewarded Moses by giving one of the daughters, Zipporah, to Moses for him to marry (Hays, 2000). At the age of eighty, Moses had talked to god on the mountain known as Mount Sinai. Moses stayed on the mountain for forty days and forty nights. God had much to tell Moses, and wanted to instruct the people on how to live. God shared with Moses the rules he would like for the people to follow, these rules are called The Ten Commandments. By following these rules the people would have less sadness. Each commandment is equally important, and it was Gods way of protecting the people (DLTK, n.d.).
There are several qualities to Moses that show his true leadership. These qualities include: faith, loyalty, humility, perseverance, foresight, and intelligence. Moses had the innate ability to have others follow him because of the leadership qualities he possessed. Moses always feels that it is his duty to fix situations and correct injustice. When