Exodus 2-4

Moses is born a Levite, one of the two tribes that would be scattered among Israel.

His family hides him from the Egyptians for three months. Afterwards, they put him in a basket made of papyrus reeds and hide him among the reeds. What will happen? Will the basket turn over? Will a crocodile eat him? Moses is found by Pharaoh's daughter. She knows the boy is a Hebrew and presumably, why the boy was abandoned. She has pity on him and takes him in. God further blesses the situation because Pharaoh's daughter hires Moses' mother to care for him. Woah. Talk about a turnaround. I wonder if Pharaoh's daughter knew this woman was his mother.

Pharaoh's daughter names him Moses, for she took him from the river. In other words, she names him Aquaman. (I'm actually somewhat serious, Exodus 2:10 -

And she called his name Moses [that is, Drawn out], and she said, "Because I drew him out of the water.")

Aquaman grows up in Pharaoh's household, but he understand that he is a Hebrew. He has a short vigilante career. He sees a Hebrew getting beaten by an Egyptian, so he kills the Egyptian and hides the body. He is Aquaman, not Batman. Someone sees him do this and it becomes the talk around town. The next day he tries to break up a fight between two Hebrews and they ask him if he will kill them like he did with the Egyptian. Uh oh!

An Egyptian in Pharaoh's house who actually is a Hebrew and this Hebrew killed an Egyptian to protect a Hebrew? This is not good. Pharaoh seeks to kill him and correct the error of years ago (i..e, letting him live as a child).

He runs off to hide in the land of the Midianites. Immediately, he returns to his vigilante ways and saves his future wife and her sisters from marauding shepherds and helps to water their animals. This impresses their father who gives him a daughter in marriage. If only it were that easy to today.

Years later, he sees a burning bush that is not consumed. Even more remarkably, the burning bush speaks to him. He figures it is God, so hides his face to not look. Through a conversation with fire, Aquaman gets a mission fit for a vigilante - take on Pharaoh and free the Israelites. He also gets his powers - (1) a staff that turns to a snake, (2) the ability to control leprosy, and (3) the ability to turn water (yes!) into blood.

It seems commonly understood that the staff would turn into a cobra, but I am not aware of any translation that says this. I think the assumption comes from the ancient Egyptian obsession with cobras, for instance Cleopatra was killed by an asp and all the cobras on the hieroglyphs. So, if Egyptians are obsessed with cobras, it would make sense that his staff could turn into a cobra to show the dominance of God over the Egyptians.

Through the burning bush, we also find out that he has a brother, Aaron. How did he survive the slaughter of the newborns?

Aquaman takes his wife and kids on the road and head back to Egypt. They are staying at an inn when God comes to kill him. God is not stated as being angry, either. What?! His wife intervenes, circumcising his child, and then wiping the blood on his feet. This really is a strange twist. Didn't God know that his child was uncircumcised before delegating supernatural abilities? Yes, I think that's the point. Aquaman/Moses got a huge dose of God's spirit and this was incompatible with a man who was in violation of the Abrahamic covenant. Another possibility is that he had to fully embrace his Israelite heritage and fully reject his Egyptian culture in order to be a proper leader to bring the Israelites out of Egypt.

It also shows that maybe his wife was not entirely on board with this mission. She is angry and blames him. Perhaps she was instrumental in delaying circumcising the child.