The people, who had been collected after diligent search, finding themselves left in a desert, sat for the most part in a stupor of grief, till one of the exiles, Moyses by name, warned them not to look for any relief from God or man, forsaken as they were of both, but to trust to themselves, taking for their heaven-sent leader that man who should first help them to be quit of the present misery…. Moyses, wishing to secure for the future his authority over the nation, gave them a novel form of worship, opposed to all that is practised by other men. … They slay the ram, seemingly in derision of Hammon, and they sacrifice the ox, because the Egyptians worship it as Apis." (quoted from The Annals and The Histories by P. Cornelius Tacitus, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1952.)
Watu ambao walikusanywa baada ya kutafutwa kwa bidii, walijikuta wameachwa jangwani, waliishi kwa sehemu kubwa katika hali ya kutokujitambua kwa huzuni, hadi mmoja wa watu hao waliokuwa uhamishoni, aliyeitwa Moyses, alipowaonya kuwa wasitafute msaada toka kwa mungu yeyote au binadamu, wakiwa wameachwa kiasi kikubwa kama walivyokuwa, bali wajiamini, huku wakimchukulia kiongozi wao aliyetumwa toka mbinguni mtu ambaye anapaswa kuwasaidia kuepukana na shida inayowakabili wakati ule . . . Moyses, ambaye anataka kujipatia mamlaka juu ya taifa hilo hapo baadaye, aliwapa njia mpya ya kuabudu, iliyotofautiana na nyingine zote zilizotumiwa na watu wengine . . . Walimchinja kondoo, kitu ambacho kilionekana kuwa kejeli kwa Hamoni, na walimtoa ng’ombe dume kuwa kafara, kwa sababu Wamisri walikuwa wanamwabudu kama Apis." (Imenukuliwa kutoka The Annals and The Histories, kazi ya P. Cornelius Tacitus, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. 1952).