Being adopted, by Princess Khât-​shepꞋset, into Egypt's Royal Pharaonic family, from the time Moses was a toddler able to walk and talk, he was schooled and trained by Egypt's elite in Egyptian military command, strategy, use of the sword, bow, chariot, ballista and other war machines along with everything a Par•ohꞋ would need to know: from the technology of war machines to the mining of copper and tin, the metallurgy of forging bronze swords and from the priestly arts of magic and illusion to the agricultural calendar and economics.

Although Moses would one day set Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ's army conscription age at 20, it appears that in ancient cultures (as in modern Arab cultures), males began to take on the responsibilities of adulthood, including army service, from about the age of 12. It's likely that Pharaonic princes, including Moses, were commissioned as an officer in the Egyptian army – the world's first superpower, the most powerful army for the past 1,000 years already in Moses' time – as a lieutenant in the chariot corps – leading forces into battle and becoming battle-hardened ("blooded"), from the age of 12. Like every other Pharaonic prince, by the time Moses was 18, he was a battle-hardened top general, excelling in every aspect of military strategy and technology; and was always armed with his sword and dagger. Like every adult Egyptian prince, Moses was fully prepared and capable, if needed, to assume the throne at any moment's notice and rule as Par•ohꞋ – the perfectly educated and trained candidate to one day lead Yi•sᵊr•â•eilꞋ and train up his own formidable protégé successor (Yᵊho•shuꞋa Bin-Nun).

One day, when Pharaonic Prince Moses had become a young man, he went out from his Pharaonic palace home to walk among his brother Ha•birꞋu; to see their burdens for himself. As he proceeded in his tour, he saw an Egyptian tax-collector beating one of the Ha•birꞋu policemen – one of his brothers. After looking all around and seeing no one else, Moses fatally struck the Egyptian tax-collector and buried him in the sand.

When Moses went out a second day, look, an Ha•birꞋu police enforcer for the Egyptian tax-collectors was beating an Ha•birꞋu worker. So Moses demanded of the Par•ohꞋ's quisling Ha•birꞋu police enforcer, "Why did you assault your fellow?"

The quisling Ha•birꞋu police enforcer faced summary death if he sassed the Egyptian Pharaonic prince. Yet, since the Egyptian prince wasn't his usual boss, he would later have to square the prince's order, which countermanded his Egyptian tax-collector boss's earlier order to discipline a worker who failed to meet the daily quota of mud-bricks. "Are you authorizing yourself, as minister and sho•pheitꞋ over us, to countermand my Egyptian tax-collector boss?" the quisling police enforcer fearfully asked. "Are you saying that now you're going to kill me like you killed the Egyptian tax-collector?" It was immediately clear from his last question that Moses's killing of the Egyptian tax-collector had become public knowledge – and that, understandably, terrified Moses!

Mi•dᵊyânꞋ

When Ah-kheper en-Ra Tut-moses Jr. heard about the matter he issued a death warrant for Moses. Upon learning that his adoptive step-nephew Par•ohꞋ had issued a death warrant for him, Moses fled from the jurisdic­tion of Par•ohꞋ. He decided to settle in the land of Mi•dᵊyânꞋ in the region colonized by the Qein•imꞋ.

Late afternoon one day, he arrived at the main well, where he sat down to rest and camp for the night. He knew that the compulsory Middle East custom of hospitality would present him an invitation for the night's lodging.

Where Biblical-era young men went in the late afternoon to meet eligible women: typical desert well

There lived a Mi•dᵊyân•iꞋ Yi•tᵊr•ōꞋ (i.e., a ko•heinꞋ), named Rᵊu•eilꞋ, who had 7 daughters, but no sons to shepherd his flocks and herds. In the late afternoon, when his daughters brought his flocks and herds to the well for water, they hauled the water up in buckets by rope to fill the troughs so their livestock could drink.

But then, the local herdsmen arrived and chased off the girls and their livestock from the watering troughs, allowing their own livestock to drink the water that the girls had hauled up from the well, carried to the watering troughs and filled up the troughs for their herds.

So Mosh•ëhꞋ, one of the best trained of Egyptian soldiers, stood up, saved the girls, and watered their livestock.

Because Mosh•ëhꞋ had helped them, the girls finished and returned home to their father, Rᵊu•eilꞋ, earlier than usual.

"You finished watering the livestock so early?" their father asked incredulously, worried there might have been some mishap or injury.

"An Egyptian rescued us from the hand of the herdsmen, hauled-up water from the well for us and even carried the water and filled the troughs, watering the tzon for us.

"Well, where is he?!?" he asked his daughters incredulously. "Why didn't you extend to him the basic courtesy that Semitic honor requires!?! Go get him and invite him to dinner and lodging!"

And Mosh•ëhꞋ became so attracted to one of Rᵊu•eilꞋ's daughters that he insisted on settling with Rᵊu•eilꞋ, who gave his daughter, Tzi•pōr•âhꞋ, to be Mosh•ëhꞋ's woman.

When she gave birth to a son, Mosh•ëhꞋ named him Geir•shōmꞋ "Because," he said, "I've been a geir in a foreign land."

Ah-kheper en-Ra Tut-moses Jr. Dies (Or Is Killed) Prematurely

Prince Men-kheper Ra Tut-moses 3^rd, Still A Toddler

Queen-Par•ohꞋ Khât-​shepꞋset Rules As Prince-Guardian

c BCE 1676

Kᵊruv: Queen-Par•ohꞋ Khât-​shepꞋset (Metropolitan Museum)

Queen-Par•ohꞋ Khât-​shepꞋset Dies

Par•ohꞋ Men-kheper Ra Tut-moses 3^rd Rules

c BCE 1655

Par•ohꞋ Men-kheper Ra Tut-​moses 3rd

So it was that, during the many days after Par•ohꞋ had died and Mosh•ëhꞋ had spent with Rᵊu•eilꞋ, Bᵊn•eiꞋ-Yi•sᵊrâ•eilꞋ moaned under the oppression, screaming, because of their workload. Their cries for help, because of their workload, ascended to ha-ël•oh•imꞋ

And ël•oh•imꞋ hearkened to their groaning, and ël•oh•imꞋ remembered His bᵊrit with Avᵊrâ•hâmꞋ, with Yi•tzᵊkhâqꞋ and with Ya•a•qovꞋ. And ël•oh•imꞋ saw Bᵊn•eiꞋ-Yi•sᵊrâ•eilꞋ and ël•oh•imꞋ made that known.