ocr: -irst God needed a leader, and tor that Job he selected Moses, a choice rich with irony. As a child, the Hebrews' national hero had loated in the cattails of the Nile a nairbreadth from certain death. God had next arranged for Moses to receive the best classical education available, in the pharaoh's palace, while being nurtured-Tor payl-by his own sraelite mother. Itt took forty years in Egypt and forty years in the desert to prepare Moses for the leadership role. God's announcement, or 'call, - - * was an encounter Moses would never forget: a fiery bush V voice from nowhere, God introducing n ...