ew's children," she said, and as the baby's
sister came near she asked the princess if she should go and get a
nurse from among the Hebrew women to bring it up for her, and the
princess said to her, "Go," and the maid went and called the child's
mother. The princess said: "Take this child away and nurse it for me,
and I will give thee thy wages."

And the mother took her baby joyfully though she hid her joy in her
heart, and carried him home to nurse and bring up for Pharoah's
daughter.

And the child grew, and when he was old enough his mother took him to
the king's palace, and he became the son of the princess. She called
his name Moses, which means "drawn out," because she drew him out of
the water.

CHAPTER X.

MOSES IN MIDIAN.

Moses had teachers, and was taught all the learning of the Egyptians,
but his heart was with his own people. He was grieved when he saw
their burdens, and heard their cries when their taskmasters struck them.

Once, when he was a grown man, he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, and
he struck the Egyptian and killed him, for he thought he ought to
defend his people: and when he saw that the man was dead, he buried him
in the sand. In a day or two Moses tried to make peace between two
Hebrews who were fighting, and they answered him roughly, and one of
them said:

"Who made thee a ruler over us? wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the
Egyptian yesterday?"

Then Moses was afraid, and when the king heard of it, and tried to take
his life, Moses fled away out of Egypt, through a desert into Midian.
There he found a well and sat down by it to rest. While he sat there
the seven daughters of the priest of Midian came to draw water for
their father's flocks, and some rough shepherds came and drove them
away, but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flocks.
When their father knew that a noble stranger had been kind to his
daughters, he asked him to come into his house, and eat bread with him,
and stay as long as he would. So Moses stayed and Zipporah, one of the
seven sisters, became his wife.

But Moses did not forget his people. God was preparing him to lead
them out of bondage, and he learned many things, during the years that
he kept the sheep of his father-in-law in the wilderness.

One day he led his flocks across the desert to Mount Horeb or Sinai.
There he saw a bush all bright within as if it burned. He drew nearer
to see why the bush was not consumed, and