Why was moses happy to live the life of a shepherd?

Answer 1

The little source information we have about Moses' life as a shepherd comes from the Biblical book of Exodus, chapters 2 and 3. Born of Israelite parents and hidden by his mother Jochabed from the conniving Pharaoh, who had ordered all the Israelite children to be drowned in the Nile (1:22), Moses grew up as the adopted daughter of Pharaoh (2:10; cf. Hebrews 11:24-26) after being found in a floating basket. After he killed an Egyptian and his crime became known, Moses fled to the land of Midian, where he met Jethro, the priest of Midian, and married Zipporah, one of Jethro's daughters. The writer of Exodus tells us that "Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law" (3:1) when the angel of the LORD appeared to him in the burning bush and commissioned him to deliver the Israelites from their bondage in Egypt. We don't know for sure whether Moses was happy as a shepherd, but the little evidence in Exodus suggests he was content in his pastoral life with Jethro (cf. 2:21). (Jethro appears again in Exod. 18.)