riches (Ex. 12:35–38). This is not the last time that Mosheh will be “drawn out.” Forty years pass. Israel’s slavery continues. One day, Moses, stirred to action by the injustice of it, kills an Egyptian who is beating a fellow Israelite, and must flee from Pharaoh to the east and spend forty years in the wilderness. This part of the story is frequently used as an example of what not to do (“Moses tried to do God’s work but ignored God’s timing,” or some such), but the narrator never suggests that