Dear Dan, I would say yes to your comment about Moses taking care of the children of Israel.
I've also put together my thoughts on returning the garment: This garment is NOT your usual winter coat.
Genesis 49:11 tells us that Judah's will be an " assemblage of nations." "He will launder his garments in wine & his rob in the blood of grapes."
THE GARMENT
The Land's glory of Torah
The joys of Torah is a man's spiritual garment.
Timing: Psalms 50:1 "O Almighty God, HASHEM, spoke and called to the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting."
EXAMPLES OF PEOPLE & LAND COMPARED TO A GARMENT OR COVERING:
Beginning with Joseph in Egypt: Egypt is "naked" without Torah.
Genesis 42.9---Joseph remembers his dream & accuses his brothers of spying out the "land's nakedness."
Genesis 43.11--- Israel their father said to them, "Take the land's glory in your baggage & bring it down to the man as a tribute."
The Land's glory are the first-fruits. Israel leaves Egypt:
Exodus 3.22----"Each woman shall request from her neighbor and from the one who lives in her house silver vessels, golden vessels, and garments; and you shall put them on your sons & daughters, and you shall empty out Egypt."
Genesis 49:11----This is said of Judah, "His will be an assemblage of nations." "He will launder his garments in wine & his rob in the blood of grapes."
Judges 9:13----The vintage of the grapevine gladdens God and men. (This is the joy of Torah) The blood of grapes cover the Kings Garment
In other words, by the authority of Judah's scepter, the King teaches the nations Torah's Law & covers them with garments of joy & righteousness. Wine is symbolic of joy covering the Children of Israel.
The symbolic "garment."
Jer. 43.12----Nebuchadrezzar wraps up the booty of the land of Egypt as a shepard wraps things in his garment, and he will leave there in peace.
Genesis 42.9--- Balaam finally sees the "goodly tents of Jacob." This keeps the donkey, the ox & the garment (Torah studies covering the Children and the land of Israel) within the same context.
Exodus 22:25----"If you take your fellow's garment as security, until sunset shall you return it to him. For so it be that if he cries out to Me, I shall listen, for I am compassionate." The idea here is taking one's Torah learning time for a reason?
One must remember that God calls out to the earth from the rising to the setting of the sun. Psalms 50:1.
Thanks again, Dan
mariaw