The Ten Commandments Page #12

- 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 Hooks

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 Hg 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 tires 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!

- 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

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