Moses’ Mistake Why then was it necessary to purify the spoils from the war in Midian? Moses in fact thought that it was not necessary.

While their parting was peaceful, Moses took world civilization along a very different path. When God tells him it is time to take up a new job he leaves Midian. He returns to Egypt. The first thing ...

It describes the divinely-mandated war with Midian, in which every adult male Midianite is killed on the battlefield by the Israelite forces.

Numbers 31 described Moses’ followers fighting the people of Midian. “They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man,” the passage reads.

So when I read of Moses’ time in Midian (Exod. 2:15–4:19), I feel something of myself in him: the constant alien, the one who looks from outside and holds together some sense of home in Midian, where ...

The love between Moses and Jethro didn’t seem to have a happy ending. But G-d has the last word, and the two men will play out the final act when the Messiah arrives and the sad times are over ...

I imagine Moses in Midian like that / Brooding in exile / Burdened by his people’s suffering / Knowing that each day / They scream from stopped-up hearts / Shedding silent tears.

Midian needed to be diminished while Moses was still the leader of the Jewish people because Moses embodied the unifying traits of humility, harmony, and truth.

We continue our study of the life of the man Moses with a unique meeting between God and Moses in the barren desert of Midian. Moses had spent 40 years taking care of his father-in-law Jethro’s ...

As recorded in Exodus 3, God appeared to Moses in the burning bush in Midian at “Horeb, the mountain of God,” also known as Mt. Sinai.