The book tells about the biblical prophet Moses, the legislator and leader of the Israeli people, to whom God revealed the secrets of existence: the creation of the world and man. Its pages summarize all existing versions of the exodus of Israeli tribes from Egypt, including historical works, Bible studies and Jewish sources almost unknown to the general reader. Following the historian P. Johnson, who believed that "inventing the figure of Moses is an unbearable task for the human mind," the author treats his hero as a real person and a true leader of the nation. The clash of different, sometimes directly opposite, points of view on the events of the prophet's life makes the book interesting both for a deeply religious reader and for a convinced atheist.