In the Bible, Moses spends 40 years in the desert after fleeing Egypt. During this time, he leads the Israelites, receives the Ten Commandments, and builds a deep relationship with God.

From the blog of J.J Gross at The Times of Israel ...

Moses is twice an exile: born in Egypt, in exile from the ancestral home in Canaan, and now exiled even from Egypt. Despite having lived forty years in Midian, Moses remains connected to his ...

At the risk of being labeled a heretic, I would suggest that the foreign land he refers to is Midian, not Egypt. Unlike his fellow Israelites, Moses never saw himself as a stranger in Egypt and ...

Moses had spent 40 years taking care of his father-in-law Jethro’s sheep when one day God spoke to Moses from a miraculous bush that was burning without being consumed.

I always think of Moses' achievements as the Jewish people celebrate Passover, or Pesach in Hebrew. The eight-day festival of freedom begins with the traditional Seder meal on the evening of April 5.