Moses’ Mistake Why then was it necessary to purify the spoils from the war in Midian? Moses in fact thought that it was not necessary.

A new Netflix docuseries on Moses drops this week and explores the historical giant central to the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths.

He would settle in distant Midian where he would be a shepherd, a job that always kept him on the go. On the face of it, Moses might have been able to placate Pharaoh.

While their parting was peaceful, Moses took world civilization along a very different path. When God tells him it is time to take up a new job he leaves Midian. He returns to Egypt. The first thing ...

In Midian, again, he dives right into the fray and chases the shepherds away. Towards the end of Moses’ career we shall see this play out again, with fateful results.

Numbers 31 described Moses’ followers fighting the people of Midian. “They fought against Midian, as the Lord commanded Moses, and killed every man,” the passage reads.

In fact, the only children who were absent were Moses’s own sons; they were back in Midian with Moses’s wife Tzipora and his father-in-law Jethro.

As recorded in Exodus 3, God appeared to Moses in the burning bush in Midian at “Horeb, the mountain of God,” also known as Mt. Sinai.