The Ten Commandments (1956) - full transcript

And the Lord said unto Moses,

"Go. Return into Egypt."

And Moses took
his wife and his son

and he returned
to the land of Egypt.

And Moses took the
rod of God in his hand.

Let the ambassador from Priam,
king of Troy, approach the Pharaoh.

Great Pharaoh, the gift
of Troy is a fabulous fabric

from the land
of the five rivers.

Our thanks to Priam.
It is fabulous indeed.

- It shimmers like the Nile. What is it?
- How is it made?

No one knows, great Pharaoh. It
is spun on the looms of the gods.



- They call it silk.
- The ambassador from Jericho.

What kingdom has sent you?

The kingdom of the Most High.

These must be
ambassadors from...

Bedouins?

- What gifts do you bring?
- We bring you the word of God.

What is this word?

Thus sayeth the
Lord God of Israel,

"Let my people go!"

The slaves are mine.

Their lives are mine.

All that they own is mine.

I do not know your God,

nor will I let Israel go.



Who are you to make their
lives bitter in hard bondage?

Men shall be ruled by law,
not the will of other men.

Who is this God that I
should let your people go?

Aaron.

Cast down my
staff before Pharaoh

that he may see
the power of God.

In this you shall know
that the Lord is God.

Mother! Mother!

He turned his
staff into a cobra!

Nothing of his will
harm you, my son.

The power of your God
is a cheap magician's trick.

Jannes.

Mother, look!

Jannes, do you see?

Moses' serpent
swallows up the others.

You gave me this staff to rule
over scorpions and serpents,

but God made it a
rod to rule over kings.

Hear his word,
Rameses, and obey.

Obey?

Moses, Moses.

Are there no magicians in Egypt

that you have come back to
make serpents out of sticks?

Or cause rabbits to appear?

I will give your staff a
greater wonder to perform.

Bear it before your idle people

and bid them make
bricks without straw.

How can people make
bricks without straw?

Let his staff
provide them with it.

Or let them glean straw
in the fields for themselves.

But their tally of bricks
shall not diminish.

So let it be written.

So let it be done.

We are free!

Aaron! Aaron, when
do we leave Egypt?

We do not leave Egypt.

But Moses promised us.

But you said we'd be freed!

I have brought
more evil upon you.

God forgive my weak
use of his strength.

- Weak use?
- Moses, what have you done
to us?

It is Pharaoh's order
that you be given no straw

- to make your tally of bricks.
- No straw?

How can we make
bricks without straw?

You will glean the stubble
of the fields by night.

And your women
and children, too.

Is this the deliverer?

You've brought the
wrath of Pharaoh upon us!

You put a sword in
their hands to kill us!

Stone him! Stone him!

Stand aside! Come!

Follow!

There goes your deliverer.
Now, go find your straw.

Remember, the tally must be
the same. Not one brick less.

I cursed you.

Each time Rameses took me in
his arms, I cursed you, not him,

because I love you.

The Moses who loved
you was another man.

No, he was not.

You believe you've
changed, but you haven't.

You call yourself a
prophet, a man of God,

but I know better.

I don't believe that only the
thunder of a mountain stirs your heart,

as you stir mine.

Nefretiri, I have stood in the
burning light of God's own presence.

It was not he who
saved you just now.

I did that.

Oh, Moses, Moses.

Why, of all men, did I fall in
love with the prince of fools?

But I believe anything you
tell me when I'm in your arms.

Why must you deny
me and yourself?

Because I am bound to a God

and to a people and
to a shepherd girl.

A shepherd girl? What
can she be to you?

Unless the desert sun
has dulled your senses.

Does she... grate
garlic on her skin?

Or is it soft as mine?

Are her lips chafed and
dry as the desert sand?

Or are they moist and red

like a pomegranate?

Is it the fragrance of
myrrh that scents her hair?

Or is it the odor of sheep?

There is a beauty beyond
the senses, Nefretiri.

Beauty like the quiet of
green valleys and still waters.

Beauty of the spirit that
you cannot understand.

Perhaps not.

But beauty of the spirit will
not free your people, Moses.

You will come to me or
they will never leave Egypt.

The fate of Israel is not
in your hands, Nefretiri.

Oh, isn't it?

Who else can soften
Pharaoh's heart?

Or harden it?

Yes.

You may be the lovely dust

through which God
will work his purpose.

Fill every jar in your
house with water.

Tell the others that for seven
days there will be none to drink.

- But this well has
never run dry.
- And the river is high.

What does it mean?

- Whose word is that?
- One who knows.

So fill your jars or go thirsty.

- Miriam is always right.
- Yes, I'm going back for
more jars.

No water for seven days.

Yes, Joshua.

She comes to the well every day.

Wait, and you will see her.

It is wise of Dathan to
send you to the well, Lilia,

or he might find
his water poisoned.

They told me you were dead.

To all I love,
Joshua, I am dead.

- Dathan?
- Yes. Dathan.

Of your own free will?

Of my own free will.

You are no man's slave. The
hour of deliverance has come.

Not for me, Joshua.

Hail to thee, great
god of the Nile!

Thy life-giving waters
are the blood of Egypt.

Hail to thee, maker of barley,

feeder of cattle,
carrier of ships,

greatest of all the gods.

Pharaoh of Egypt! You
have not yet obeyed the Lord.

Let my people go!

- The point of the sword...
- Let him rave on,

that men shall know him mad.

Obey the Lord,

or he will raise his hand
against the waters of the river.

I have come to bless the waters,
you have come to curse them.

We will learn if a god of shepherds
is stronger than the gods of Pharaoh.

Water of life, give
drink to the desert

- and make green the meadow.
- Aaron.

Stretch out my staff
against the waters.

- Look!
- There!

Where he struck
the river, it bleeds.

The water turns to blood!

Blood flows from the god!

See how it spreads.

It is blood!

That you may know
the power of the Lord,

for seven days,
Egypt will thirst.

Seven days without
water! Fill every jug and jar!

- Pestilence will be everywhere!
- Were it seven times seven
days,

no magician's trick
will set your people free.

Sacred water,

make pure the flood
from which you came.

And God smote the land
with all manner of plagues,

but still Pharaoh's
heart was hardened.

Great one, you
hear the cry of Egypt.

They would cry louder if
they had to make the bricks.

- Send them away.
- The people have been plagued

by thirst, they've been
plagued by frogs, by lice, by flies,

by sickness, by boils.
They can endure no more.

Back to your homes!

Why do you bring this
worker of evil before me?

The people desert the temples.

- They turn from the gods.
- What gods?

You prophets and
priests made the gods,

that you may prey
upon the fears of men.

When the Nile ran
red, I too was afraid,

until word came of a
mountain beyond the cataracts

which spewed red mud
and poisoned the water.

Was it the staff I gave
you that caused all this?

Was it the wonder of your
god that fish should die

and frogs should
leave the waters?

Was it a miracle that flies and
lice should bloat upon their carrion

and spread disease
in both man and beast?

These things were
ordered by themselves,

not by any god!

Now, go.

That you may know these
things are done of God...

you shall see hail
fall from a clear sky

and burn as fire
upon the ground.

You shall see
darkness cover Egypt

when the sun
climbs high to noon.

And you shall know
that God is God

and bow down to his will.

Nothing of this Earth can
make me bow to you, Moses.

Behold, the hail comes.

When darkness has
covered Egypt for three days,

your ministers will send for me.

In the three days of darkness,

you have whined like
frightened children in the night.

Moses said the sun would
shine in three days and it is true.

Oh, great one,
let his people go,

or all of Egypt will be barren
from the cataracts to the sea.

Will my father free the slaves?

Can taxes be collected from
dead cattle and blighted harvests?

Does fear rule Egypt, or do I?

We fear no army of the Earth,

but can we fight
plagues with swords?

There is no shame in this.

The strongest tree bends.

It is not Pharaoh who
yields to the slave,

but his counselors.

I have summoned
Moses at your request.

People will bless
you, great one.

No other choice, Pharaoh.

Does the world bow
to an empty throne?

Empty?

Does a Pharaoh harden
his heart against his son?

If you let the Hebrews
go, who will build his cities?

You told Moses to make
bricks without straw.

Now, he tells you to
make cities without bricks!

Who is the slave, and
who is the Pharaoh?

Do you hear laughter, Rameses?

Yes, the laughter of kings

in Babylon, in Canaan,

in Troy,

as Egypt surrenders
to the god of slaves!

Bring the Hebrew in.

Go into the garden. It's not
good for a son of Pharaoh

to see his father humbled
by a son of slaves.

My son, stand beside me.

Have the days of darkness
made you see the light, Rameses?

Will you now free my people?

Great one, bid the
scribe read the order.

Give me the writing.

Sublime, ye Pharaoh.

You cannot resist
the power of his god!

I know not his god!

Neither will I let
his people go.

How long will you refuse to
humble yourself before God?

If you bring another
plague upon us,

it is not your god but I who
will turn the Nile red with blood.

As your father's father turned
the streets of Goshen red

with the blood of
our male children!

If there is one more
plague on Egypt,

it is by your word
that God will bring it.

And there shall be so great
a cry throughout the land

that you will surely
let the people go.

Come to me no more, Moses,

for on the day you
see my face again,

you will surely die.

So let it be written.

I will give this spawn
of slaves and his god

an answer the
world will not forget!

Commander of the Host,
call on the chariots from Tanis.

There shall be one more plague,

only it will come upon
the slaves of Goshen!

First-born of each
house shall die,

beginning with the son of Moses.

You are the shepherd
girl that Moses married?

The queen of Egypt is
beautiful, as he told me.

My husband is not here.

Is this Moses' son?

Yes, this is our son.

What do you want of us?

You need have no fear of me.

I feared only his memory of you.

You have been able to erase it?

He has forgotten both of us.

You lost him when he
went to seek his God.

I lost him when
he found his God.

At least he left you
a son to cherish.

I am here to save his son.

- From what?
- From Pharaoh's decree

that the first-born
of Israel must die.

Die?

God of Abraham!

Don't let him do this!
Not to the children!

A caravan for Midian is
waiting for you and your son.

My chariot will bring you to it.

I'm surprised you noticed me.

You didn't at the palace
this morning, you know?

Why? Were you
afraid to look at me?

What do you want, Nefretiri?

You, Moses.

Everything about us
is coming to an end!

You will destroy Egypt
or Egypt will destroy you.

I belong to you, Moses.

She's gone with
your son to Midian.

Why would she leave?

She knew you would try to save the
other children before your own son.

Save the other
children? From what?

Rameses is massing the Libyan axmen,
the chariots, the Sardinian swordsmen.

Why? Tell me why!

- To destroy the first-born
of Israel.
- Oh, God!

My God!

Out of his own mouth
comes thy judgment!

- But I have saved your son,
Moses.
- It is not my son who will die!

It is... It is the
first-born of Egypt!

It is your son, Nefretiri!

You would not dare
strike Pharaoh's son!

In the hardness of his heart,
Pharaoh has mocked God

and brings death to his own son!

But he's my son, Moses.

You would not harm my son?

By myself, I am nothing.

It is the power of God which
uses me to work his will.

You would not let
him do this to me.

I saved your son.

I cannot save yours.

Your god listens to you, Moses.

About midnight,

the destroyer will come
into the midst of Egypt

and all the
first-born shall die,

from the first-born of Pharaoh
to the first-born of his servants.

When you were Prince of Egypt,

you held me in your arms.

When you were a condemned slave,

I threw myself at your feet
before the court of Pharaoh.

Because I loved you, Moses.

It is the Lord who
executes judgment, Nefretiri.

Go back to your son.

Your love for me is stronger
than the power of any god.

You will not kill my son.

Turn from thy
fierce wrath, O Lord!

♪ Death cometh to me ♪

♪ To set me free ♪

♪ Death cometh to me... ♪

No, Lilia, death
will not come to you.

Joshua!

Joshua, you risk your
life in coming here.

- You are first-born.
- So are you.

I bring lamb's blood to
mark the doorposts and lintel,

that the Angel of
Death may pass you by.

Joshua, it is enough
that you have come to me.

I am outcast among our people.

Don't save me from death,
Joshua, save me from life.

Tomorrow will bring a
new world for us, Lilia.

There will be no new world!
And no blood on this door!

Dathan, it will save her life!
Moses has God's promise!

Moses has words,
Pharaoh has spears.

Remember, Joshua, of
her own free will she's mine.

♪ And under his
wing shalt thou trust ♪

"Though we stand in
the shadow of death,

the Lord is our God.
The Lord is one."

"The Lord is our
God. The Lord is one."

♪ His truth shall
be thy shield ♪

"Shield us through this night of
terror, O King of the Universe."

Why is everyone afraid?

Why is this night
different from all others?

Because this night
the Lord our God

will deliver us from
the bondage of Egypt.

♪ Thou shalt not be afraid
for the terror by night ♪

Stand all!

- Pharaoh's soldiers!
- Or worse!

♪ Or from the arrow
that flyeth by day ♪

Bithiah!

In fear of your god,
they have set me free.

May a stranger enter?

There are no strangers among
those who seek God's mercy.

My bearers?

All who thirst for freedom
may come with us.

The darkness of death
will pass over us tonight.

Tomorrow the light of
freedom will shine upon us

- as we go forth from Egypt.
- I shall go with you, Moses.

- A princess of Egypt!
- From the house of Pharaoh!

- She follows the gods of Egypt.
- An idol-worshipper!

This woman drew me from the Nile

and set my feet upon
the path of knowledge.

Mered, bring a chair to our
table for the daughter of Pharaoh.

There is a great light that
shines from your face, Moses.

Perhaps some day I
shall come to understand it.

He is God's messenger, Princess.

If it is not forbidden to look
upon the breath of pestilence,

then see, for it is here.

Do not look, Eleazar.

Close the door, Joshua,
and let death pass.

Will it pass,
Moses? Will it pass?

That is God's promise, Elisheba.

"Blessed art thou,
O Lord our God,

who bringeth forth
bread from the Earth."

Run! Run!

There shall no evil befall you,

or any plagues come near you.

♪ A thousand shall
fall at thy sight ♪

Why do we eat unleavened
bread and bitter herbs, my uncle?

The herbs...

Faster! Take the other road!

The herbs remind us of the
bitterness of our captivity, Eleazar.

♪ But it shall not
come nigh thee ♪

This is the bread of haste,

that you will
remember this night

from generation to
generation forever.

Oh, my baby! Give
me back my baby!

- They are my people.
- All are God's people.

Death is all around us!

But it passes those who
have believed the Lord.

Always remember, Eleazar,

he passed over your house.

Are the captains of Egypt
afraid of a night mist?

- The death cry is everywhere.
- Some devil's curse! Look!

I've known battle for
30 years, Pharaoh,

but I've not known
fear till tonight.

Aide.

Have the captains
join their men.

At the coming of
dawn, we will strike.

No first-born Hebrew shall live.

Let the Hebrews go, great one,

or we are all dead men.

He was your son?

My first-born.

There is no magic
cure, no spell to use.

He is the first-born of Pharaoh.

We have no skill
before this... pestilence.

- My father.
- My son.

Your own curse is on him.

- Where did you hear this?
- From Moses.

I would not let his people go

because your serpent's
tongue hardened my heart.

You only thought
to keep Moses here.

You cared nothing for my throne,

or my son.

I asked Moses for his life.

The shadow of
death is on his face.

No... he will not die.

Captain.

Take my fastest chariot.
Bring Moses to me.

I will bring him,
mighty Pharaoh.

He's my only son.

You have conquered, Moses.

The foot of a slave is
on the neck of Egypt.

You were saved from the
Nile to be a curse upon me.

Your shadow fell
between me and my father,

between me and my fame,

between me and my queen.

Your shadow now fills
all things with death.

Go out from among
us, you and your people.

I set you free.

It is not by your word,

nor by my hand that
we are free, Pharaoh.

- The power of God has freed us.
- Enough of your words!

Take your people, your cattle,
your god and your pestilence.

Take what spoils from
Egypt you will, but go!

O Lord God,

with a strong hand thou dost

bring us out of bitter bondage.

Tomorrow we go
forth a free nation,

where every man shall
reap what he has sown

and bow no knee
except in prayer.

We will go with our
young and with our old,

with our sons and
with our daughters,

with our flocks and
with our herds will we go,

for I know that
the Lord is great...

and that our Lord
is above all gods.

He's dead.

Sokar,

great lord of the lower world,

I, who have denied
the gods of Egypt,

bow before you now.

Show that you have power
above the god of Moses,

and restore the life he
has taken from my son.

Guide back his soul
across the lake of death

to the place of living men,

and I will raise a temple to
you mightier than the pyramids.

Hear me, dread
lord of darkness...

Arise, O Israel!

Behold the dawn of freedom!

And it came to pass, after
the stifling night of terror,

came a day such as
the world had never seen.

From east and west,
from north and south,

they came with all they
had, driving their flocks

and their herds and
their camels before them.

By tens, by hundreds,
by thousands,

unending streams of
man and beast and burden,

and even very much cattle,

poured into the
Avenue of Sphinxes.

Beneath the stone feet of the
four colossal images of Rameses,

which their own sweat
and blood and sinew

had hewn from solid rock,

a nation arose and freedom
was born into the world.

Grandfather, have
you got Rebecca?

No, I haven't got Rebecca.

Here's the kneading trough.
Sling it on your shoulders.

This is a blessed day!

- Where's Rebecca?
- Here's Rebecca!

- Ben Caleb!
- Thank you!

- Can we take the cattle?
- We're moving to the gates.

Horn and hoof.

Rachel, help me
with this brick yoke.

Don't forget the
oil for the lamps.

Where are we going, Naomi?

To some land flowing
with milk and honey!

I've never tasted honey.
Anybody know the way?

It's away from the whip! Freedom
will wet your throats in the desert.

Fill your water skins.

This is the governor's
house! You cannot enter.

Out! Out, all of you!

Why do soldiers come here?
I put no blood on my door.

Then stone bleeds!

- Harness the mules!
- Your stonecutter did this
to me!

All your gold cannot wipe that
mark from your door, Dathan,

or from my heart.

Just for that, you'll
walk all the way to...

Where are we going?

- Do you know where we're going?
- To hell, I hope!

Like Dathan, they did not
know where they were going,

and they cared no more than
the flocks and herds they drove.

Now they used the brick yokes
to carry a very different burden.

And there went forth among them

planters of vineyards
and sowers of seeds,

each hoping to sit under
his own vine and fig tree.

Out of this glorious chaos,

it is Joshua who brings
order and purpose.

Set the standard of each
tribe before all the people!

Levites in the center, Judah to
the right, Hephron to the left. Go!

Hallelujah!

Watch where you're going!
Watch out, you ribbon-carrier!

Keep your big feet
out of my geese!

♪ His son Joseph ♪

♪ Many colors was his coat ♪

Aaron and the elders carry a
shrouded body, Grandfather!

They bear the bones of
Joseph, to rest in his own land.

Nubians, Grandfather!

- Here come treasure wagons!
- Spoils of Egypt.

All who shared the toil will
share this gold! Here, boy!

For the blind one!

It's a little golden calf,
Grandfather, with horns!

An idol. For idol-worshippers!

Grandpa, fire-bearers!

Plant your fires at night
beside the tribal standards,

where all may come
to light their torches!

- They'll be burning, Joshua!
- Eleazar, hang this on the
wagon.

Now, the cradle.

Here, Miriam.

Joshua!

Joshua!

I have wagons for the
midwives and physicians.

- Where shall they be placed?
- Five thousand cubits, one...

Where's your whip, Dathan?

I'll pay you back every
lash you gave me, Dathan!

Now, is this a day for
us to have hard feelings?

I've felt your whip!

- Yes, every day.
- Lilia is no slave, Dathan!

You can carry your own carton.

Let her ride!

So, now, my brother,
we have new taskmasters.

- We serve no masters now!
- Yes, but not for long.

Here. Old woman.

- That's it.
- Joshua!

Make way for the governor!

- You know who I am.
- I know who you were,
Lord Governor.

I go to serve the Pharaoh.

Tell Rameses I'm
coming back to my house.

That rabble may follow
Moses into the desert today,

but when their eyes are
seared red by the sun,

when their cracked
lips bleed with thirst,

when their stomachs
cramp with hunger,

they will curse the name
of Moses and his god.

Then I, Dathan, will lead them
back to Pharaoh and the brick pits.

There are so many.

So many.

How shall I find thy road
through the wilderness, Lord?

How shall I find water in
the desert for this multitude?

Moses, the people are assembled.

Then let us go forth
to the mountain of God,

that he may write his
commandments in our minds

and upon our hearts forever.

We march, praising
his mighty name!

- What is the word, Joshua?
- The word is given!

Let the trumpets sound!

Hear, O Israel!

Remember this day,

when the strong hand of the
Lord leads you out of bondage!

The Lord is our
God! The Lord is one!

The Lord is our
God! The Lord is one!

- Come on! Come on!
- Yes! Come on!

Joshua!

Four hundred years in bondage,
and today he won't move!

♪ The Lord is one ♪

♪ Praise to God ♪

♪ Thank thee, O Lord ♪

My litter can carry him.

I am poured out like water,

my strength dried up

into the dust... of death.

We shall plant your
fig tree in the new land.

Children shall eat of its fruit.

Do you hear that?
Do you hear that?!

You have a strong new son!

And he brought forth the
people with joy and gladness.

He bore them out of Egypt

as an eagle bears its
young upon its wings.

But again, Pharaoh's
heart was hardened.

How many more days
and nights will you pray?

Does he hear you?

Dread Lord of Darkness,

are you not greater
than the god of Moses?

I have raised my
voice to you, yet life

has not come to
the body of my son.

- Hear me!
- He cannot hear you.

He's nothing but a piece of
stone with the head of a bird.

He will hear me.

I am Egypt.

Egypt?

You are nothing.

You let Moses kill my son.

No god can bring him back.

What have you done to Moses?

How did he die?

Did he cry for mercy
when you tortured him?

Bring me to his body!

I want to see it,
Rameses! I want to see it!

This is my son.

He would have been Pharaoh.

He would have ruled the world.

Who mourns him now?

Not even you. All you
can think of is Moses.

You will not see his body.

I drove him out of Egypt.

I cannot fight the
power of his god.

His god?

The priests say that
Pharaoh is a god,

but you are not a god, you
are even less than a man.

Listen to me, Rameses,

you thought I was evil when I
went to Moses, and you were right.

Shall I tell you what
happened, Rameses?

He spurned me, like a
strumpet in the street.

I, Nefretiri, Queen of Egypt!

All that you wanted from
me he would not even take.

Do you hear laughter, Pharaoh?

Not the laughter of kings,

but the laughter of
slaves on the desert!

Laughter?

Laughter?

My son, I shall build your
tomb upon their crushed bodies!

If any escape me, their seed shall
be scattered and accursed forever!

My armor. War crown.

Laughter?

I will turn the laughter of these
slaves into wails of torment!

They shall remember
the name of Moses,

only that he died under
my chariot wheels!

Kill him with your own hands.

Let the trumpet sound.
Alert the watch towers.

Assemble all the
chariots at the city gate.

- I obey!
- Nura and Thebes
will draw my chariot.

I will bring you back
your temple treasure!

Bring it back to me
stained with his blood.

I will.

To mingle with your own!

Whoa!

Nura, Thebes!

Guards salute!

Hail!

Hail!

Remember your first-born!

- Death to the slaves!
- Death to the
slaves!

- Death to their god!
- Death to their god!

Hail!

Forward!

Do you hear thunder?
Over the sea?

No, it comes from the desert.

That's the thunder of horses!

Look! Pharaoh's chariot!

We're trapped against the
sea! Caleb, warn the north tents!

Joshua?

That's Joshua's horn!

All men to the pass! Get
carts, wagons! Form a barrier!

- What's the alarm, Joshua?
- Pharaoh's chariot!

Block the pass with carts!
Women and children, to the sea!

- Bring shovels, pounders,
mattocks!
- Hear me! Hear me!

Can mattocks stop arrows?

Will your little carts
stop Pharaoh's chariots?

You women, do you want
to see your men killed?

- Moses!
- Joshua, what is it?

Pharaoh's chariots! I've
ordered men to block the pass!

- How can we fight chariots?
- Nothing can stop them!

Order the men to
move back, Joshua.

Move back? Where? Into the sea?

Into the hand of God.

Deliverer? Yes, he has
delivered you to death!

Run! Run!

Look! Look!

Blame Moses for this!
Deliver him to Pharaoh!

Stone him! Stone him!

The god of Moses
is a poor general,

to leave him no retreat.

Ten times you have seen
the miracles of the Lord!

And still you have no faith!

He's a false prophet
who delivers you to death!

Stone him! Stone him!

Listen to Moses!
He speaks God's will!

Forward!

- They will stop for me!
- A charging chariot knows
no rank.

Was it because there
were no graves in Egypt

that you took us away
to die in the wilderness?

Why must we die?

Fear not!

Stand still, and see
the salvation of the Lord!

- A pillar of fire!
- It is the work of God!

Through it!

No, great one! You cannot
breach the fire of God!

Gather your families and your
flocks. We must go with all speed.

Go where? To drown in the sea?

How long will the fire
hold Pharaoh back?

- Will it hold?
- After this day,

you shall see his
chariots no more!

No! You'll be dead under them!

The Lord of Hosts
will do battle for us!

Behold his mighty hand!

The wind opens the sea!

God opens the sea with
the blast of his nostrils.

Lead them through
the midst of the waters.

His will be done!

He opens the waters before
them, and he bars our way with fire.

Let us go from this place.
Men cannot fight against a god!

Better to die in battle with
a god, than live in shame.

Praise God and down into it!

God has delivered us
from the son of Pharaohs.

♪
Jacob cherished ♪

♪ His son Joseph ♪

♪ Many colors was his coat ♪

- Help us!
- Never mind the wheel!

Pull! Pull for your lives!

Is your life worth so much?

♪ Jacob cherished ♪

♪ His son Joseph ♪

♪ Many colors was his coat ♪

♪ God of A'bram ♪

♪ Isaac, Jacob ♪

♪ Ever bless us with Thy hand ♪

Get tow-lines on
the midwife's cart!

Save the bread if you can!

Ben Caleb! Order all
wagons to turn clear!

Moses! Stand on the rock where the
people can see you and have hope!

Above us!

Help that wagon!

The fire dies!

Sound the pursuit!

Chariots, halt!

This is work for a
butcher, not a Pharaoh.

Destroy them all.

But bring Moses to me alive.

Level spears! Forward!

- Here! Take him!
- Wait for me! Wait for me!

Grandfather, look,
the horses are coming!

The chariots! Run!
Run! Run for your lives!

Better to serve the
Egyptians than to die here!

Who shall withstand
the power of God?

Thou didst blow with Thy winds,

and the sea covered them!

Who is like unto Thee, O Lord?

From everlasting to everlasting,

Thou art God!

The Lord is one!
The Lord is one!

Before you strike,

show me his blood on your sword.

You couldn't even kill him.

His god... is God.

And Moses led Israel
from the Red Sea

into the wilderness of Sinai.

And they camped
before the holy mountain.

And when the people
saw that Moses delayed

to come down out
of the mountain,

they gathered
themselves together.

Ask Aaron. Could anyone live on that
fiery summit for 40 days and 40 nights?

- Yes! By the will of God!
- Who knows the will of God?

Do you? Do I?

Or you, Sephora?
His grieving wife.

She came back among
us to find her husband.

But he's dead. Even she
cannot hope that he lives!

Moses went up into the forbidden
ground to receive God's law!

Yes, but he's not returned!

We share your
pain. We sympathize.

But will sympathy lead us to this
land flowing with milk and honey?

- Now, we have no leader!
- Don't be fooled!

Moses will return!

Would a God who's
shown you such wonders

let Moses die before
his work is done?

- His work is done.
- His mother!

So beautiful is the
hope of a mother!

But there are other
mothers among you!

What will become
of your children?

- We must have faith!
- Faith in what? You, Aaron?

Can you lead us to this land of
promise? Do you know where it is?

- Tell us!
- Where is it?

Across the wilderness!

- Then who is to lead us?
- You, Dathan!

Where could I bring
you, except to Egypt?

- Where there is death?
- No! Where there is food!

- Pharaoh would kill us all.
- Not if a god of Egypt went
before us!

- You could make one for us,
Aaron.
- No!

- Aaron knows the art
of the temple!
- I will not!

He will not!

He would rather see our
flesh rot in the wilderness.

You will make a god for us!

A god of gold! A golden calf!

Korah shall be the high priest!

Bring baskets! Buckets!
Shawls! Anything you have!

Break off your earrings,
your bracelets, your necklaces!

We will make of
them a golden calf!

- The golden spoils we took from
Egypt!
- There!

Spoils of Egypt!

From the burning bush, O Lord,

you charged me to bring the
people to this holy mountain,

to behold your glory
and receive your law.

What have I left undone?

I am...

I am...

I am the Lord thy God.

Thou shalt have no
other gods before me.

Thou shalt not make unto
thee any graven image.

And they overlaid the
image with pure gold.

And Aaron fashioned it and
smoothed it with the hammer,

ready to be graven by
cunning art and man's device.

And he fastened it with
nails that it should not move.

And he that smote the anvil

did beat the molten
gold into thin plates.

For they had gathered their
treasure into the midst of the furnace,

and did blow the
fire upon it to melt it.

And they adorned themselves
in rich apparel and costly array,

with veils of blue and
purple and scarlet,

and fine twined linen
wrought in Egypt.

And the women tread grapes
from Midian into new wine.

Thou shall not take the name

of the Lord thy God in vain.

Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep it holy.

Honor thy father and thy mother.

Thou shalt not kill.

And the people
sinned a great sin,

for they had made
them a god of gold.

And they bore him upon
their shoulders and rejoiced,

saying, "This be
our god, O Israel."

Are you mourners of Moses
afraid to face the new god of gold?

They were as children
who had lost their faith.

They were perverse and crooked
and rebellious against God.

They did eat the
bread of wickedness,

and drank the wine of violence,

and they did evil in
the eyes of the Lord.

And the people cried, "The
graven image hath brought us joy,"

and they worshipped the
golden calf and sacrificed unto it.

Here is your sacrifice!

Make way! Make
way for the sacrifice!

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Thou shalt not steal.

Thou shalt not
bear false witness

against thy neighbor.

Thou shalt not covet anything

that is thy neighbor's.

Written with the finger of God.

Go! Get thee down,

for thy people have
corrupted themselves.

And the people rose up to play,

and did eat and drink.

They were as the
children of fools

and cast off their clothes.

The wicked were
like a troubled sea

whose waters cast
up mire and dirt.

They sank from evil to evil

and were viler than the earth.

And there was rioting
and drunkenness,

for they had become
servants of sin.

There was manifest all manner of
ungodliness and works of the flesh.

Even adultery
and lasciviousness,

uncleanness,
idolatry and rioting,

vanity and wrath.

And they were filled with
iniquity and vile affections.

And Aaron knew that he
had brought them to shame.

Abiram! Korah! Bind
the sacrifice with cord!

Even unto the
horns of the altar!

The light of God
shines from you, Moses.

Do not kneel to me, Joshua.

These tablets of stone...

The writing of God.

His Ten Commandments.

There is a noise
of war in the camp.

It is not the noise of war.

It is the noise of
song and revelry.

- Moses!
- Look!

Joshua!

Woe unto thee, O Israel.

You have sinned a great
sin in the sight of God!

You are not worthy to receive
these Ten Commandments.

Aaron!

We are gathered against you, Moses!
You take too much upon yourself!

We will not live by your
commandments. We are free!

There is no freedom
without the law.

Whose law, Moses? Yours?

Did you carve those tablets
to become a prince over us?

Who is on the Lord's side,

- let him come to me!
- I am!

Moses!

Moses! Moses!

- You have cursed us.
- These people made me.

Joshua! Joshua!

He showed you no land flowing with
milk and honey! I show you a god of gold!

Come with me! Follow me!

Blasphemers! Idolaters!

For this you shall
drink bitter waters!

God has set before you this day

his laws of life and good

and death and evil.

Those who will
not live by the law...

shall die by the law!

And the Lord's anger
was kindled against Israel.

And to prove whether they would
keep his commandments or no,

he made them wander
in the wilderness 40 years,

until all the generation that had
done evil in the sight of the Lord

was consumed.

But Moses' eye was not dim,
nor his natural force abated.

And he went up from the plains of
Moab unto the mountain of Nebo,

and the Lord showed
him all the land

that was beyond
the river Jordan.

The Lord was angry with me

because I disobeyed
him by the waters of strife.

And he said unto me, "Behold
the new land with thine eyes.

For thou shalt not cross
over this river Jordan."

Then I shall stay.

I am called by the Lord,
Sephora. I go alone.

Look, Moses.

The people have
come to the river Jordan.

In the Ark, they carry
the law you brought them.

You taught them not
to live by bread alone.

You are God's torch, that
lights the way to freedom.

I love you.

Joshua...

Joshua, I charge you
and strengthen you,

for you shall go over
Jordan to lead the people.

As for me and my house,
we shall serve the Lord.

Mered, give me the books.

Eleazar, set these five books

in the Ark of the Covenant,

by the tablets of the
Ten Commandments,

which the Lord restored unto us.

Go.

Proclaim liberty
throughout all the lands,

unto all the
inhabitants thereof.