Moses' mother placed him in an ark and concealed the ark in the bulrushes by the riverbank, where the baby was discovered and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter and raised as an Egyptian.

After killing an Egyptian slavemaster (because the slavemaster was smiting a Hebrew), Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian.

Zipporah was one of seven Midianite sisters that mistook Moses for an Egyptian after he saved them from the men at the well. According to some sources, he later married a Cushite princess named Tharbis or Adoniah.

EXODUS 3:1-4: Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. So Moses thought, "I will go over and see this strange sight--why the bush does not burn up." When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, "Moses! Moses!" And Moses said, "Here I am."

According to the Book of Exodus the burning bush was located on Mount Horeb, the mountain of God.

Gershom was the firstborn son of Moses and Zipporah. The name appears to mean a sojourner there, perhaps a reference to Moses' flight from Egypt.

God sent Moses back to Egypt to demand the release of the Israelites from slavery.

According to the Book of Exodus, God inflicted ten plagues on Egypt before the Pharaoh conceded to Moses' demands to let the enslaved Israelites go into the wilderness to make sacrifices.

EXODUS 4:24-26: ²⁴ At a lodging place on the way, the Lord met Moses and was about to kill him. ²⁵ But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it. "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me," she said. ²⁶ So the Lord let him alone.

EXODUS 7:7: Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three when they spoke to Pharaoh.