The background of Moses can be found in the Old Testament in Exodus 2:1–25. Moses was the son of a couple from the house of Levi. He received his name from the Egyptian princess who found him in a basket in the river Nile and said, “I drew him out of the water” (Exodus 2:10). First, he stayed with his mother, but later he was brought up in the palace of the Pharaoh (compare Acts 7:17–29 for more information). He was forty years old—grown up—when he left the palace of the Pharaoh and sided with the people of Israel, the slaves.
24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,