Exodus 18:8

8. Moses told A thrilling tale! Such wonders as the plagues of Egypt and the miracles of the exodus would have speedily become the subject of national song and history . The presumption, in the absence of any evidence, that Moses would also commit the great events of his time to writing, is far greater than that he would not . By the travail that found them by the way we understand the hunger and thirst and exhaustion which caused the people to murmur; also the war with Amalek .