“Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan, and great affliction: and our fathers found no sustenance.”
'When Moses was forty years old, he decided to visit his own people, the Israelites - the 'forty years' marks a full generation in biblical time-thinking. Moses's decision 'to visit his own people' is a turn toward identification with his suffering kindred, a movement from palace to people. This establishes the pattern of the deliverer arising from the oppressed community.
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