According to Paul F. Bork, "the leadership qualities of Moses are
             thoroughly outlined in the Holy Bible, where his life story is told in
             Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy" (1978, 25). Thus, with a close
             reading of these four books, the leadership abilities of Moses the
             patriarch can easily be discerned. Historically, Moses displayed the true
             attributes of a great leader, due to the fact that he dared to defy
             Ramesses II, Pharaoh of Egypt, and insist that his people, being the
             Israelites, be taken out of bondage and led into the Promised Land, where
             the new religion of Judaism was founded. Thus, in many of the tales
             concerning Moses, one can come to understand his leadership qualities
             through what some scholars have called eye-witness accounts as they are
             One of the first important incidents related in the Holy Bible that
             demonstrates the leadership qualities of Moses is found in Exodus, where it
             says that Moses wandered out of the Egyptian palace and came upon a scene
             that opened his eyes to the fate of his fellow Israelites--"And it came to
             pass in those days when Moses was grown up, that he went out unto his
             brethren and looked on their burdens; and he saw an Egyptian smiting a
             Hebrew, one of his brethren" (2:11). In response to this act, Moses rescued
             a fellow Israelite from a beating and inflicted a kind of justice on the
             Egyptian that symbolized the worst excesses of the Egyptian monarchy.
             Thus, Moses exhibited one of the best attributes of leadership, being the
             saving of a fellow human being while putting his own life at risk for the
             During his long journey back to Egypt after being expelled from the
             court for his rebellious actions aimed at freeing the Israelites from the
             bondage of slavery, Moses encountered his long-lost brother Aaron and the two of them trekked back to Egypt and presented themselves to the elders of the enslaved I
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