“Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.”
Pharaoh hears what Moses has done and seeks to kill him, and Moses flees from Pharaoh. He ends up in the land of Midian, where he sits down by a well. The flight from Egypt is the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. Moses entered the palace as an infant through God's extraordinary provision; he leaves it as a fugitive through his own unready action. Yet even the flight is within God's purposes. The wilderness of Midian, where Moses will spend the next forty years, is also where the burning bush is. Acts 7:29 notes that Moses became a foreigner in Midian and fathered two sons there — a full life in exile, not wasted years. The well where he stops is the same setting as the Jacob and Rachel meeting in Genesis 29, and it will produce another meeting that shapes Israel's story. God is never finished with a man simply because the man has made a mess of things.
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