He realizes that never again will he enter that palace where once he was
received with honor, where now his name is uttered only with contempt.
Never again will he discourse with grave and learned men in his favorite
haunts, and never again will he see the people of his tribe whom he
loves and for whom he endures this miserable fate. They will suffer but
he will not help them; they will mourn, but he will not hear them. In
his dreams he hears and sees them. He hears the whistling of the lash
and the convulsive sobs and groans. He sees the poor slaves toiling in
the fields and sees the daughters of Israel carried off to the harem
with struggling arms and streaming hair. He sees the chamber of the
woman in labor, the seated, shuddering, writhing form, the mother
struggling against maternity, dreading her release, for the king's
officer is standing by the door, ready, as soon as a male child is born,
to put it to death.

The Arabs who gave him shelter were also children of Abraham, and they
related to him legends of the ancient days. They told him of the
patriarchs who lay buried in Canaan with their wives; they spoke of the
God whom his fathers had worshiped. Then, as one who returns to a long
lost home, the Egyptian returned to the faith of the desert, to the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. As he wandered on the mountain heights,
he looked to the west and saw a desert; beyond it lay Canaan, the home
of his ancestors, a land of peace and soon to be a land of hope. For
now, new ideas rose tumultuously within him. _He began to see visions
and to dream dreams._ He heard voices and beheld no form; he saw trees
which blazed with fire and yet were not consumed. He became a prophet
and entered into the ecstatic stage. _That is, he began to have
illusions and hallucinations._

Dwelling on the misery and suffering of his people, his mind becomes
deluded with the idea that he has been chosen by his new-found God to
liberate his people from the tyranny of their oppressors.

Meanwhile the king had died, and a new Pharaoh had ascended the throne.
Moses returns to Egypt to carry out the great designs which he had
formed. He announces to the elders of his people, to the heads of the
houses, and the sheiks of the tribes that the God of Abraham had
appeared to him in Sinai and had revealed his true name. It was Jehovah.
He had been sent by Jehovah to Egypt to bring away his people, to lead
them to Canaan.

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