Letter 027 — The Sender: Three Lives, Forty Years Each (Exodus 2-3)

Letters From Home · Jun 16, 2026 · 8m

Moses had three lives. One ended at forty. The next ended at eighty. The third was about to start in a wilderness he had stopped expecting anything from.

In this letter

- The traditional Mosaic authorship of the Torah

- Moses the prince of Egypt — the basket in the reeds, Pharaoh's house

- The killing of the Egyptian and the flight to Midian

- Moses the fugitive — forty years tending Jethro's sheep, married, settled, done

- Numbers 12:3 — Moses as anav, the humblest man on earth

- Why God called the eighty-year-old, not the forty-year-old

Scripture

- Exodus 2 (referenced)

- Numbers 12:3

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