The Ten Commandments Page #14

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?

Lam...

lam...

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!

- You have cursed us.

- Dathan and the people made me do it.

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.

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