Joshua!
400 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! - Children shall eat of its fruit!
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?
My son, I shall build your tomb upon their crushed bodies!
If any escape, their seed shall be scattered and accursed forever!
My armour. 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!
Ready 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!
Salute!
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 horses, wagons! Form a barrier!
What's the alarm?
Pharaoh's chariot! Block the pass with carts!
Women and children, to the sea!
Bring shovels! Mallets!
Hear me! Hear me!
Can mallets stop arrows? Will your cart stop Pharaoh's chariots?
Women, do you want your men killed?
Moses! Pharaoh's chariots! I've ordered men to block the pass!
- We can't fight chariots! - Order the men to move back, Joshua.
Move back? Where? Into the sea?
Into the hand of God.
Deliverer? He's delivered you to death!
Look! Look!
Blame Moses for this! Deliver him to Pharaoh!
Yes! Yes! 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 delivers you to death!
Stone him! Stone him!
Listen to Moses! He speaks God's will!
- They will stop for me! - A chariot knows no rank.
Was it because there where no graves in Egypt
that you took us to die in the wilderness?
Fear not!
Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord!
- A pillar of fire! - The work of God!
Through it!
No, great one! You cannot breach the fire of God!
Gather your families and flocks. We must go with all speed.
Go where? To drown in the sea?
How long can the fire 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 waters. - His will be done!
He opens the waters for them and he bars our way with fire.
Let us go. Men cannot fight a god!
Better to die in battle with a god, than live in shame.
Praise God and down into it!
God has delivered us!
- Help us! - Never mind the wheel!
Pull! Pull for your lives!
Is your life worth so much?
.. Jacob's son Many colours was his coat...
God of Israel...
Save the bread if you can!
Bring Caleb to help with the wagons!
Moses! Stand on the rock where the people can see you and have hope!
Above us!
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!
Oh!
- Here! Take him! - Wait! Wait!
Grandfather, look, the horses are coming!
The chariots! Run! Run!
Better to serve 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 together.
Could anyone live on that summit for 40 days and 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 to find her husband.
But even she cannot hope he lives!
Moses went up into the forbidden ground to receive God's law!
But he's not returned!
We share your pain. We sympathise.
But will sympathy lead us to this land flowing with milk and honey?
Now we have no leader!
Moses WILL return... AAH!
Would a God who's shown you such wonders
let Moses die before 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? - Across the wilderness!
- Then who is to lead us? - YOU, Dathan!
Where could I bring you but Egypt?
- Where there is death? - No! Where there is food!
- Pharaoh would kill us. - Not with a god of Egypt before us!
- Make one, Aaron. - 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!
Take off your earrings, your bracelets, your necklaces...
Aaron will make us a golden calf!
- The gold we took from Egypt! - There!
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 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,
veils of blue, purple and scarlet, and fine linen wrought in Egypt.
And the women tread grapes into new wine.
Thou shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honour 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?
Then they were as children who have 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 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!
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbour.
Thou shalt not covet anything that is thy neighbour'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.
Woe unto thee, oh Israel.
You have sinned a great sin in the sight of God!
You are not worthy to receive these Ten Commandments.
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? Yours?
Did you carve the tablets to become a prince over us?
Who is on the Lord's side... let him come to me!
I am!
- You have cursed us. - These people made me.
He showed you no 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 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 mountains,
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.
"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.