Moses, The Old Testament

The record of Moses' life is a lengthy one in Exodus. He is one of the few individuals whose lives are recorded literally from his birth to his passing. In the course of his lifetime, Israel sees both great misfortune and great blessings.
Moses' early life takes place among the Egyptian royalty, to whom his people, the Israelites, are slaves. They were not involved, so far as we know, in the construction of the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the products of an even earlier age, but hard work under the hot Egyptian sun was their daily lot, toiling on behalf of a different dynasty from the benevolent one that welcomed Israel as guests during the famine recorded in Genesis.
Moses, the adopted son of Pharaoh's daughter, had no part in this, but he came to know his real heritage, probably from his mother, who had the good fortune to obtain employment as the young Moses' nurse maid. This phase of his life seems to have lasted about 40 years, ending abruptly when Moses flees the justice which might have ended his life as a result of his slaying of an abusive Egyptian slave master.
The second phase of his life could be described as "obscurity", serving as a herdsman under his future father-in-law. This life could not have been anything but spartan and unadorned, but there is no record of his missing "the good life" he had fled from back in Egypt. He was, as far as we know, reconciled to the simple life.
This phase of Moses' life also ended without warning through the message delivered through the burning bush, calling Moses as Jehovah's instrument in freeing the Israelites from bondage. The call leaves Moses intimidated by the skills he felt he would need to succeed, but is assured that he was called by God, and that his brother Aaron would serve as his mouthpiece.
The final phase of Moses life could be described simply as prophet/leader. The skills needed for this huge assignment sometimes proved elusive, but Moses was both divinely instructed and aided by faithful associates like Joshua and Jethro. No doubt Moses was surprised to find that delivering the people from Pharaoh was no guarantee that the Israelites would be willing followers from then on.
In fact, God became so exasperated with the Chosen People that he denied entrance for most of them into the Promised Land, including, at last, Moses himself. These condemned people simply kept crisscrossing the desert, following the direction which marked the sky both day and night until they simply wore out, fed by manna, but unfulfilled in reaching the final destination.
Moses left things that both Christians and Jews today find very important, particularly the record of Genesis through Numbers - to Jews "The Law" and to Christians the origins of humanity along with the Jewish roots of today's beliefs.