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Burdette 2022-03-21 09:02:10

Watching the Oscar-winning film "The Ten Commandments" today, some people are born with something that others have pursued for a lifetime! Moses was born in a slave's home. In order to prevent Moses' eldest son from being killed, his mother put it in a basket and floated down the Nile River. He was rescued by Pharaoh's sister and raised as an adult, becoming one of the prince's candidates.

Born as a slave, he became a nobleman in the palace...

The Ten Commandments are based on the book of Exodus in the Old Testament, telling the life of the Jewish prophet Moses (Charlton Heston). After experiencing various trials and tribulations, the Lord God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and gave him strength. Moses led the suffering Hebrews out of Egypt and across the Red Sea to rebuild their lives.

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The Ten Commandments quotes

  • [Opening line and sentences as movie started]

    Narrator: And God said Let there be light, and there was light. And from this light, God created life upon earth. And man was given diminion over all things upon this earth and the power to choose betweem good and evil. But each sought to do his own will because he knew not the light of God's law. Man took dominion over man, the conquered were made to serve the conqueror, the weak were made to serve the strong, and freedom was gone from this world. So did the Egyptians cause the children of Israel to serve with rigor, and their lives were made bitter with hard bondage. And their cry came up unto God. And God heard them and cast into Egypt, into the lowly hut of Amram and Yochabel, the seed of a man upon whose mind and heart would be written God's law and God's commandments, one man alone against an empire.

  • [the 'stick to cobra' combat had just occurred]

    Moses: 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.

    Rameses: 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?