Exodus 3:1-3

How this appearance of God to him found him employed. He was keeping the flock (tending sheep) near mount Horeb, Exod. 3:1. This was a poor employment for a man of his parts and education, yet he rests satisfied with it, and thus learns meekness and contentment to a high degree, for which he is more celebrated in sacred writ than for all his other learning.