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[solemn music playing]

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[Yahweh] I am what I am…

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and what I will be.

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[thunder rumbling]

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[narrator] The Bible speaks
of a lowly shepherd

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called to a mysterious mountain

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somewhere in the Sinai Peninsula.

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[epic music rising]

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The journey is perilous.

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And he's filled with fear.

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But a powerful force
he does not yet understand

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pulls him onward.

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Faith.

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[baby squalling]

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The man carries with him a secret past.

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[man] My brother,
not an Egyptian, but one of us.

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I'm Hebrew?

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[narrator] Each step brings him closer
to his true destiny.

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[man] God has spoken to him.

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[woman] I told you not to bring him back.

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[man 2] You are not one of them, Moses.

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[screams]

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[locusts buzzing]

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[Moses] It's time to let my people go.

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[narrator] Deliverer of the Israelites.

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[ethereal voice] Show them the way.

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[narrator] Messenger of God.

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[Yahweh] I am what I am
and what I will be.

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[somber music playing]

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[narrator] In a time of great famine,

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the Israelites, descendants of Abraham,

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settled in Egypt…

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[woman screams]

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…where they were enslaved for 400 years.

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They suffered for centuries,
but their numbers grew.

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Fearing they would rise up against him,

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the king ordered all male Hebrew babies

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drowned in the Nile.

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[dark musical flourish]

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-[baby crying]
-[dramatic music playing]

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Adopted in secret by Pharaoh's daughter…

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[teacher speaking indistinctly]

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[narrator] …he is raised
in the royal court…

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alongside his uncle, the future king.

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His name is Moses.

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[Andy Lewter] Even though
he was a prince of Egypt

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and he had all of the benefits
of Pharaoh's house,

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growing up in that household,
being a member of the royal family,

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I think inside of him, he knew that there
was something different about him.

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He knew that he was born different.

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[Maurice Harris] The Torah doesn't tell us
what his Hebrew name was.

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It's one of the mysteries
that's wrapped into this story.

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And it's also partly a story
about Moses discovering in increments

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his identity and his destiny.

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[whip cracking]

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[man screaming]

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[narrator] "And it came to pass
in those days when Moses was grown,

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he spied an Egyptian smiting a Hebrew."

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[woman] No! No! No!

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[melancholy music playing]

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[taskmaster] Back to work!

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[Lewter] I am convinced that there was
an innate spirit inside of Moses

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that identified with the oppression

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that this Hebrew slave
was undergoing at the time,

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and I think there was
a moment of awakening.

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[melancholy music continues]

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[man screaming]

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You! Stop!

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Stop!

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Let him go.

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I said, let him go.

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Yes, sir.

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Day over!

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[tense music playing]

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[heart pounding]

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[ears ringing]

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[tense music swells]

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[gasps]

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[narrator] "Now when Pharaoh
heard this thing,

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he sought to slay Moses."

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"But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh."

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[ominous music playing]

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He wanders east in the desert
towards Midian.

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A stranger in a strange land.

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[inspiring music playing]

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No longer an Egyptian prince,

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and not yet the prophet
who will free the Israelites.

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So much of the Judeo-Christian religion
rides on Moses.

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He's a founding father.

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Everything that you might know
about the Bible

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in some way, shape, or form,

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can be drawn back to Moses,
his life, and his ministry.

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Moses is unique
in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition

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in that he appears in all three.

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He's accorded honor
as a prophet in all three.

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[Celene Ibrahim] The prophet Moses
is mentioned in the Qur'an

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upwards of a hundred times.

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And so it's very unique in the sense
that very few prophets

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have their entire life story
told in the Qur'an.

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[Shlomo Einhorn] Everything
about his life,

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what he went through, his challenges,

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and what he's done,

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there's not a piece of it
that is not relevant to us today.

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What do you do
when other people are suffering?

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Stand up or stay quiet?

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Social justice?

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Social justice began with Moses.

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Moses the murderer to Moses the liberator.

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That is a fascinating story.

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[choral music playing]

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Look. Someone is coming.

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Who are you?

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[Moses panting]

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I will work for bread and water.

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You may drink for free.

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[Moses coughing]

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Who do I thank for this kindness?

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Jethro. Owner of the well.
Priest of the mountain.

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I meant your name.

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His daughter.

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Zipporah.

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[Harris] When Moses flees Egypt,

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he ends up in the care
of this nomadic pastoral clan

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in the wilderness near Mount Sinai.

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That is the place
where Moses finds rescue.

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[horse whinnies]

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[menacing music playing]

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Entertaining suitors at our expense?

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Our expense, Naim.

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And our suitors are none of your business.

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Desert rats are not welcome.

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This one wants to die.

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Perhaps, but he will gladly
take two of you with him.

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Kill him.

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[Naim breathes deeply]

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Not today.

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[uplifting music playing]

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Come.

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[Ibrahim] It's the women themselves
who see in Moses something special

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because they accept his help.

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They recognize in him these qualities
of strength and trustworthiness.

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[Shady Nasser] In the Qur'an,
it's a funny story where Zipporah--

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In Arabic it would be Sephora.

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She was walking in front of him,

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and then the wind blows,
and then her skirt is lifted a little bit.

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And then Moses, of course,
he doesn't want to look at her.

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So he walks in front of her
so that he doesn't look at her back.

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And they were impressed with his chivalry.

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The daughters,
they went back to their father

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and they tell him that Moses,

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the trustworthy, strong one, he helped us.

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[soothing music playing]

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What brought you to Midian?

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[Moses] Our pharaoh is building a city.

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The people were told
to work as serfs or pay tax.

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-So I left.
-For the desert?

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A man can be free there.

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Egyptian ways are not like ours.

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But for your bravery
on my daughters' behalf,

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you may stay the night.

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[Harris] Jethro is
one of my favorite characters

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in the entire Moses saga.

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What we know about Jethro is he is loving,

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that he provides shelter,
that he's a good judge of character.

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It doesn't matter to him
whether this guy is Egyptian or Midianite,

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or whatever he might be.

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He did something to help and he's in need.

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Jethro is a priest
of the Midianite people.

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They were a polytheistic people

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that lived at the same time
as Ancient Egypt

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and eventually as ancient Israel.

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I don't think they really
had monotheists back then.

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Um, I think pretty much everyone
believed that many gods existed.

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The question is, which one do you worship?

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So, I mean, the term is monolatry.

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It's not monotheism,
where you only believe there's one God.

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Monolatry means you only worship one God.

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You acknowledge
the existence of others, right?

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But there's only one that you worship.

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[Kirsch] If you take the Bible literally,

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God makes it absolutely clear

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that he's the only God
that the Israelites should worship.

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He doesn't necessarily make it
absolutely clear that he is the only God.

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In the Ten Commandments, he says,

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"Thou shalt not have
any other gods before you."

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Now you could interpret that to mean

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there are other gods,
and other people worship those gods,

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but you, my chosen people,
must only worship me.

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[Yahweh] Show them the way.

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[ethereal music playing]

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Your bedding is ready.

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What do you see?

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Who lives in the mountain?

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[Zipporah] No one. Why?

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I saw a fire there on the summit.

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No, it's impossible.
It's holy ground. No one may go there.

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[Moses inhales deeply]

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Then what did I see there?

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[ethereal music swells]

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The mountain is a very significant place
in many religious traditions.

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There are gods who are imagined
to dwell on mountaintops

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because a mountaintop is high
and hard to reach

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and may be hidden by clouds

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from which occasionally
you saw flashes of light.

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You could imagine how that would
impress someone down in the flatlands

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as an object of great mystery.

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[grave music playing]

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[Yahweh] Show them the way.

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Show them the way.

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[boy] Who am I, Mother?

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[heart beating]

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[mother] What a question for a boy.

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You are a prince of Egypt.

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Why?

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[boy] The other boys make fun of me.

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They say I'm different.

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That I'm not royal like they are.

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The highest symbol in the land.

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In our family since time began.

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Never lose sight of who you are.

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You are as royal as anyone.

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Hmm?

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Sleep now.

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My darling Moses.

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[discordant music playing]

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[hissing]

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[dramatic musical flourish]

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It's been hard for… us since Mahar died.

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Seven daughters and no son.

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He was my best shepherd.

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Hmm.

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Why not offer the stranger his job?

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A man who risked his life for strangers
is half in love with death.

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If he goes back to the desert, he'll die.

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It will be on our hands.

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You have your mother's cunning.

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[uplifting music playing]

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[Zipporah] Moses!

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Please, don't leave.

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My father, he offer you a job.

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[Lewter] Midian was a refuge for Moses,

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and I think it was a refuge
that allowed him

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to enjoy comfort and convenience.

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[Harris] It's the place
he's able to lay low

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while the Egyptian authorities
are looking for him

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because he is wanted for murder.

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[Kirsch] He goes from being
a prince of Egypt to being a shepherd.

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He has been reduced
from a high and mighty figure

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to a humble and obscure figure.

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He's tending to a flock
in the desert of Midian.

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And that's where he gets the call.

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[thunder rumbling]

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[rain pattering]

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[Yahweh] Show them the way.

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[high-pitched ringing]

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Show them the way.

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[thunder crashing]

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I brought breakfast.

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[sighs contentedly]

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I've seen marks like this before.

261
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The tax collectors use them.

262
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Did you learn them in Egypt?

263
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For record-keeping?

264
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And to tell stories with.

265
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[Zipporah] Mm.

266
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And what story do these tell?

267
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Yours and mine.

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[blowing horn]

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Oh, god of the mountain.

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Witness.

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Today, we consecrate the marriage
of thy servants Moses and Zipporah.

272
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[tender music playing]

273
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Beside the majesty of thy dwelling place,

274
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our lives are as nothing.

275
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As fragile and rare
as this piece of glass.

276
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May the union of thy servants…

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[voice breaking] …be good in thy sight.

278
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And bountiful.

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[women ululating]

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[music intensifies]

281
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[Kirsch] It's intriguing to ponder

282
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that Moses was in touch with
many different cultures and traditions.

283
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He was a prince of Egypt.

284
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He was the son-in-law
of the high priest of Midian.

285
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He was the liberator of the Israelites.

286
00:24:43,815 --> 00:24:49,571
And I think that, uh, multiple connections
with people in the world in which he lived

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has relevance for the world
in which we live,

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because it shows that having
more than one identity is possible

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and maybe even inevitable.

290
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[sighs]

291
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[grunts]

292
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[narrator] Moses and Zipporah
start a family in Midian

293
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and have two sons.

294
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Gershom and Eliezer.

295
00:25:43,291 --> 00:25:44,543
[baby fussing]

296
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[Rachel Adelman] The firstborn,
his naming is really important.

297
00:25:52,801 --> 00:25:55,845
So Moses calls him Gershom…

298
00:25:56,346 --> 00:25:59,808
[speaking Hebrew]

299
00:26:00,308 --> 00:26:04,980
[in English] "For I was a stranger
in a strange land."

300
00:26:05,063 --> 00:26:11,820
It speaks to Moses' sense
of not belonging, right?

301
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Not belonging to Midian.

302
00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:16,241
Not belonging in Egypt.

303
00:26:17,951 --> 00:26:19,953
[baby crying]

304
00:26:21,454 --> 00:26:23,456
[dramatic music playing]

305
00:26:26,418 --> 00:26:27,919
[narrator] In the years that follow,

306
00:26:28,003 --> 00:26:32,591
the old Egyptian king dies
and Moses' uncle takes the throne.

307
00:26:34,259 --> 00:26:35,969
He is Pharaoh,

308
00:26:36,678 --> 00:26:39,306
the most powerful ruler of the age.

309
00:26:45,520 --> 00:26:48,898
[Nick Brown] If we had to equate
the Pharaoh in the story of the Exodus

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00:26:48,982 --> 00:26:51,526
with a pharaoh that we know
from Egyptian history,

311
00:26:51,610 --> 00:26:53,945
it could possibly be Ramesses the Great

312
00:26:54,029 --> 00:26:57,949
because the story of the Exodus
talks about how the Israelites

313
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were forced into labor

314
00:26:59,451 --> 00:27:01,745
and were forced to build
these two great cities.

315
00:27:02,370 --> 00:27:06,082
One of which was Pi-Ramesses,
or the House of Ramesses,

316
00:27:06,166 --> 00:27:09,836
which was Ramesses the Great's
capital city in the Delta

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00:27:09,919 --> 00:27:11,713
during the Nineteenth Dynasty.

318
00:27:11,796 --> 00:27:13,048
[singing]

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00:27:13,131 --> 00:27:14,883
[Monica Hanna] When he comes to power,

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00:27:14,966 --> 00:27:18,261
he leads several campaigns
to the area of Syria Palestine.

321
00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:22,807
He conquers areas
even as far as, uh, Beirut in Lebanon.

322
00:27:23,808 --> 00:27:27,479
The reign of Ramesses the Great
was one of the most influential

323
00:27:27,562 --> 00:27:29,022
and one of the most powerful,

324
00:27:29,105 --> 00:27:31,858
and really was the peak
of Egyptian empire.

325
00:27:33,568 --> 00:27:34,819
How are the auguries?

326
00:27:36,571 --> 00:27:38,823
There are always unruly ones, Majesty.

327
00:27:40,033 --> 00:27:40,909
Where exactly?

328
00:27:49,167 --> 00:27:50,669
In the desert, Majesty.

329
00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:55,256
Scrub dwellers late with their tribute.

330
00:27:55,340 --> 00:27:56,591
Inconsequential.

331
00:27:58,510 --> 00:28:00,553
Even a beggar may be enlightened.

332
00:28:01,554 --> 00:28:02,597
True, my lord.

333
00:28:03,723 --> 00:28:05,016
[Pharaoh] The spell, sorcerer.

334
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,686
Let them feel our displeasure.

335
00:28:08,478 --> 00:28:11,981
So they may come to us
in supplication and humility.

336
00:28:12,899 --> 00:28:14,567
It will be done, Majesty.

337
00:28:18,571 --> 00:28:22,492
[Nasser] He is harsh towards anyone
who is trying to threaten his kingdom.

338
00:28:22,575 --> 00:28:25,704
He was merciless, he's brute,
he is killing people.

339
00:28:25,787 --> 00:28:29,082
He only cares about his, uh…
Maintaining his wealth, his power.

340
00:28:29,165 --> 00:28:32,335
If you want to describe someone
as a tyrant in Arabic, you would say…

341
00:28:32,419 --> 00:28:34,421
[speaking Arabic]

342
00:28:34,504 --> 00:28:37,132
[in English] Is to behave like Pharaoh,
or to become like a pharaoh.

343
00:28:37,215 --> 00:28:41,553
So it really became, uh, synonymous,
this word, with-- with Pharaoh's actions.

344
00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:46,850
[narrator] The new pharaoh
has many enemies outside his kingdom.

345
00:28:47,475 --> 00:28:51,396
But the biggest threat to his rule
is his nephew,

346
00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:55,483
now a humble shepherd in Midian.

347
00:29:06,244 --> 00:29:07,120
Gershom!

348
00:29:07,829 --> 00:29:10,999
What have I told you?
Eyes on the flock at all times.

349
00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:13,042
Yes, Father.

350
00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:16,671
What were you looking at?

351
00:29:17,630 --> 00:29:20,800
Three riders on the plain
heading for our village.

352
00:29:21,301 --> 00:29:23,553
-Ishmaelites coming to make trouble.
-No.

353
00:29:24,971 --> 00:29:26,598
They were white horses.

354
00:29:27,432 --> 00:29:29,434
[dramatic music playing]

355
00:29:32,270 --> 00:29:34,773
[Jethro] This is
a most unexpected pleasure.

356
00:29:39,110 --> 00:29:41,196
Enjoy the comforts of our home.

357
00:29:41,905 --> 00:29:42,739
[man] Thank you.

358
00:29:51,372 --> 00:29:52,415
[Jethro] My foreman.

359
00:29:53,625 --> 00:29:55,293
Ambassadors from Egypt.

360
00:30:00,882 --> 00:30:02,884
Kneel before His Majesty's emissaries!

361
00:30:06,679 --> 00:30:07,514
Kneel!

362
00:30:10,850 --> 00:30:13,436
Apologies. He's foreign-born.

363
00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:16,314
You must inform him.

364
00:30:18,358 --> 00:30:20,693
The old pharaoh has joined the gods.

365
00:30:20,777 --> 00:30:23,279
His firstborn is the new pharaoh.

366
00:30:23,363 --> 00:30:25,365
[tense music playing]

367
00:30:28,618 --> 00:30:31,496
All the desert tribes must send tribute.

368
00:30:33,998 --> 00:30:36,918
Um… we are blessed and honored,

369
00:30:37,961 --> 00:30:39,420
but we are also poor.

370
00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:45,844
We saw your flock.

371
00:30:46,427 --> 00:30:49,138
It's quite healthy and bountiful.

372
00:30:50,765 --> 00:30:53,268
Please. Rest after your journey.

373
00:30:54,018 --> 00:30:55,728
We must continue our mission.

374
00:30:59,691 --> 00:31:00,900
But we will return.

375
00:31:11,119 --> 00:31:13,371
How do we pay when we are already in debt?

376
00:31:13,454 --> 00:31:15,373
We stall, negotiate, as always.

377
00:31:15,456 --> 00:31:16,791
Not with this pharaoh.

378
00:31:19,252 --> 00:31:20,128
You know him?

379
00:31:44,736 --> 00:31:45,987
[voice echoing] Murderer.

380
00:31:47,572 --> 00:31:49,240
[foreboding music playing]

381
00:31:52,744 --> 00:31:53,620
Leave me.

382
00:32:02,795 --> 00:32:04,213
Leave me alone!

383
00:32:10,428 --> 00:32:12,430
[ethereal music playing]

384
00:32:29,364 --> 00:32:30,907
[whip cracking]

385
00:32:30,990 --> 00:32:32,909
[younger Moses] Stop! You! Stop!

386
00:32:41,542 --> 00:32:44,045
[Zipporah] Moses! Moses!

387
00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:47,465
[panting]

388
00:32:49,509 --> 00:32:51,552
You have been up here for days.

389
00:32:53,096 --> 00:32:54,097
Come down now.

390
00:32:56,224 --> 00:32:57,642
This is where I belong.

391
00:33:01,562 --> 00:33:04,565
You have… two sons now.

392
00:33:05,692 --> 00:33:06,651
And a wife.

393
00:33:06,734 --> 00:33:08,277
I do not deserve them.

394
00:33:08,861 --> 00:33:10,780
And how does that help us?

395
00:33:12,865 --> 00:33:14,867
[somber music playing]

396
00:33:23,584 --> 00:33:26,379
[Yahweh] Show them the way.

397
00:33:29,924 --> 00:33:31,759
Show them the way.

398
00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:22,727
There are things about me you must know.

399
00:34:28,649 --> 00:34:31,861
I was brought up as a prince
of the royal household.

400
00:34:35,281 --> 00:34:36,282
[Zipporah] A prince?

401
00:34:41,662 --> 00:34:43,206
Why didn't you tell us?

402
00:34:43,289 --> 00:34:45,875
Egyptian royals
are not liked by desert people.

403
00:34:47,293 --> 00:34:48,920
All this time you kept it hidden?

404
00:34:49,003 --> 00:34:51,672
If your father had known,
he would not let me stay.

405
00:34:59,222 --> 00:35:00,139
I killed a man.

406
00:35:03,726 --> 00:35:04,685
A taskmaster.

407
00:35:08,231 --> 00:35:10,108
And this is why you left Egypt?

408
00:35:15,196 --> 00:35:16,906
They would have punished you.

409
00:35:17,490 --> 00:35:18,783
More than that.

410
00:35:18,866 --> 00:35:21,285
They would have known
what I always suspected.

411
00:35:22,286 --> 00:35:27,208
That I was not really one of them
any more than I'm one of you.

412
00:35:28,459 --> 00:35:30,378
-Then who are you?
-I don't know.

413
00:35:32,255 --> 00:35:33,422
I need to find out.

414
00:35:35,716 --> 00:35:37,468
There is a sign on the mountain again.

415
00:35:37,969 --> 00:35:39,178
I must go there.

416
00:35:42,265 --> 00:35:43,975
No one has ever been.

417
00:35:45,059 --> 00:35:46,602
You might not come back.

418
00:35:47,103 --> 00:35:49,105
[somber music rising]

419
00:36:12,253 --> 00:36:13,838
I love you more than life.

420
00:36:17,675 --> 00:36:19,677
[expectant music playing]

421
00:36:42,825 --> 00:36:45,912
[Lewter] I think
God calls us in a variety of ways.

422
00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:51,000
Sometimes our call
is the result of struggle.

423
00:36:51,083 --> 00:36:54,837
But sometimes our call is a rejection

424
00:36:54,921 --> 00:36:58,966
of the comfort and the convenience
we have so come to enjoy.

425
00:37:00,635 --> 00:37:03,471
And I think that's what Moses represents.

426
00:37:11,687 --> 00:37:14,815
Moses was deeply flawed
and extraordinarily resilient.

427
00:37:15,942 --> 00:37:18,236
He was conflicted about his identity.

428
00:37:19,070 --> 00:37:20,905
He was an adopted child.

429
00:37:21,447 --> 00:37:24,283
He was a person with a criminal record.

430
00:37:24,951 --> 00:37:28,454
He was homeless for part of his life.

431
00:37:28,537 --> 00:37:33,709
And his failures teach us
as much as his achievements.

432
00:37:35,169 --> 00:37:37,964
[Kang] God calls who he wants to call.

433
00:37:38,047 --> 00:37:40,591
In fact, I can't think
of a-- a single person

434
00:37:40,675 --> 00:37:42,343
in the Bible outside of Jesus

435
00:37:42,927 --> 00:37:48,474
that doesn't have
a glaring character flaw or impediment

436
00:37:48,557 --> 00:37:52,270
in some way, shape or form
that is like, "Really?"

437
00:37:52,770 --> 00:37:54,730
But God just specializes in that.

438
00:37:54,814 --> 00:37:58,150
The God of scripture
is a god who specializes

439
00:37:58,234 --> 00:38:03,239
in taking broken things
and not just fixing them,

440
00:38:03,322 --> 00:38:06,284
but repurposing them
for something even greater.

441
00:38:06,367 --> 00:38:08,369
[expectant music continues]

442
00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:18,170
[thunder crashing]

443
00:38:22,633 --> 00:38:24,635
[dramatic music playing]

444
00:39:28,282 --> 00:39:30,284
[solemn music playing]

445
00:40:25,005 --> 00:40:26,590
[Yahweh] Take off your shoes.

446
00:40:29,051 --> 00:40:30,010
Who are you?

447
00:40:31,554 --> 00:40:33,514
This is holy ground, Moses.

448
00:40:34,306 --> 00:40:35,766
Take off your shoes.

449
00:40:38,894 --> 00:40:41,355
-Tell me, what do you want from me?
-Do as I say.

450
00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:50,406
I am what I am and what I will be.

451
00:40:51,574 --> 00:40:54,785
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

452
00:40:55,911 --> 00:40:57,538
The God of the Israelites.

453
00:40:58,122 --> 00:40:59,874
The God of everything.

454
00:41:02,001 --> 00:41:04,920
And you are what you are

455
00:41:05,004 --> 00:41:06,630
and what you will be…

456
00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:09,800
my messenger.

457
00:41:11,218 --> 00:41:14,555
The Hebrew Bible makes a fundamental point

458
00:41:15,181 --> 00:41:18,809
that human beings cannot see God.

459
00:41:18,893 --> 00:41:21,604
They cannot be
in the physical presence of God.

460
00:41:22,271 --> 00:41:23,981
There is one great exception.

461
00:41:24,064 --> 00:41:25,816
The exception is Moses.

462
00:41:27,401 --> 00:41:28,861
You are truly God?

463
00:41:28,944 --> 00:41:32,323
I am what I am and what I will be.

464
00:41:33,032 --> 00:41:35,951
[Enns] You have a bush that is burning,
but not consumed.

465
00:41:36,035 --> 00:41:40,039
A Jewish philosopher named Philo
who lived around the time of Christ

466
00:41:40,122 --> 00:41:41,540
reads this allegorically.

467
00:41:41,624 --> 00:41:45,503
He says it's symbolic
of Israel's enslavement,

468
00:41:45,586 --> 00:41:47,838
which is, they're burned
but they're not consumed.

469
00:41:47,922 --> 00:41:49,340
They're still surviving.

470
00:41:49,882 --> 00:41:52,301
[Yahweh] I have watched you
for years, Moses.

471
00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:55,554
Seeking. Questioning.

472
00:41:56,055 --> 00:41:59,725
And I have brought you here
to reveal your purpose.

473
00:42:00,726 --> 00:42:02,436
You will return to Egypt.

474
00:42:03,145 --> 00:42:05,814
You will persuade the Hebrews
to follow you.

475
00:42:06,649 --> 00:42:11,153
And in my name, you will demand
their freedom from Pharaoh.

476
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,365
Pharaoh will never free the Hebrews.

477
00:42:14,907 --> 00:42:16,367
He will resist.

478
00:42:16,450 --> 00:42:18,827
And I will smite him for it.

479
00:42:20,371 --> 00:42:22,164
What have I to do with the Hebrews?

480
00:42:23,332 --> 00:42:26,710
I am not a leader or man of words.

481
00:42:27,670 --> 00:42:29,797
Until you find your way,

482
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,967
your brother, Aaron, will speak for you.

483
00:42:33,050 --> 00:42:35,177
[uplifting music playing]

484
00:42:35,261 --> 00:42:36,178
My brother?

485
00:42:38,013 --> 00:42:39,181
Go to Egypt.

486
00:42:40,015 --> 00:42:42,851
Announce yourself
to the Hebrews as my messenger.

487
00:42:43,602 --> 00:42:45,729
I will tell you my name.

488
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:48,190
The name I am known by.

489
00:42:49,024 --> 00:42:51,944
And they will know that you speak for me.

490
00:42:53,487 --> 00:42:55,364
[in Hebrew] I am that I am.

491
00:42:56,657 --> 00:42:59,785
[in English] Moses doesn't know
that he's gonna be convincing.

492
00:42:59,868 --> 00:43:04,039
And God says, "Okay, don't worry.
I'll tell you my name."

493
00:43:04,665 --> 00:43:05,499
"It's…"

494
00:43:05,583 --> 00:43:07,001
[speaking Hebrew]

495
00:43:07,084 --> 00:43:09,169
[in English] "I will be that I will be,"

496
00:43:09,253 --> 00:43:11,338
or "I will become that I will become."

497
00:43:11,922 --> 00:43:13,340
What kind of name is that?

498
00:43:13,424 --> 00:43:15,593
It's a name that's a verb.

499
00:43:16,302 --> 00:43:17,928
God is a verb.

500
00:43:19,430 --> 00:43:21,765
I am not meant for this task.

501
00:43:23,392 --> 00:43:25,019
I'm not even a good man.

502
00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:27,938
I have chosen you.

503
00:43:28,856 --> 00:43:29,940
Moses.

504
00:43:40,534 --> 00:43:42,578
[Moses] Zipporah! Zipporah, we must go!

505
00:43:44,663 --> 00:43:45,497
[Zipporah] Oh!

506
00:43:47,458 --> 00:43:48,834
I have seen God.

507
00:43:48,917 --> 00:43:51,420
God? Which God?

508
00:43:51,503 --> 00:43:53,964
The God of the Hebrews.
The God of everything.

509
00:43:54,673 --> 00:43:55,883
He has a task for me.

510
00:43:58,010 --> 00:44:00,679
Pack clothes for you and the children.
We leave at once.

511
00:44:00,763 --> 00:44:02,765
[electrifying music playing]

512
00:44:05,851 --> 00:44:08,395
[narrator] "The Lord had said to Moses
in Midian,

513
00:44:08,479 --> 00:44:10,189
'Go back to Egypt,

514
00:44:10,272 --> 00:44:13,484
for all those who wanted
to kill you are dead.'"

515
00:44:26,205 --> 00:44:28,707
"So Moses took his wife and sons,

516
00:44:28,791 --> 00:44:32,670
put them on a donkey,
and started back to Egypt."

517
00:44:34,254 --> 00:44:36,256
[wind blowing wildly]

518
00:44:43,222 --> 00:44:44,431
[Zipporah] We are lost!

519
00:44:45,015 --> 00:44:46,684
[Moses] God is showing us the way.

520
00:44:59,071 --> 00:45:00,698
Just three weeks to Goshen.

521
00:45:02,199 --> 00:45:03,242
And then what?

522
00:45:03,951 --> 00:45:05,953
We stop at the village. There is an inn.

523
00:45:06,036 --> 00:45:08,372
There, we will meet my brother, Aaron.

524
00:45:09,081 --> 00:45:12,626
The brother this God told you of?
Who you don't even know exists?

525
00:45:13,210 --> 00:45:15,003
It's God's word. I believe it.

526
00:45:15,963 --> 00:45:17,965
-If there is no brother…
-There will be.

527
00:45:18,048 --> 00:45:20,259
…when we reach Goshen, can we return home?

528
00:45:20,342 --> 00:45:22,803
-There will be a brother.
-But if there isn't.

529
00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:24,722
There will be a brother!

530
00:45:24,805 --> 00:45:26,807
But if there isn't!

531
00:45:29,977 --> 00:45:31,603
[sighs] Bring me the meat.

532
00:45:33,689 --> 00:45:35,816
I do not believe in this God.

533
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:39,153
-The Hebrews are suffering.
-I believe in our family.

534
00:45:39,236 --> 00:45:40,404
Then I am your husband!

535
00:45:44,324 --> 00:45:46,827
Perhaps with you beside me,
I can deliver them.

536
00:46:02,634 --> 00:46:04,595
[narrator] Moses heeds God's instructions

537
00:46:06,013 --> 00:46:10,768
and journeys across the desert
to meet his brother, Aaron.

538
00:46:19,943 --> 00:46:21,945
[mellow music playing]

539
00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:27,534
How will you recognize your brother?

540
00:46:30,078 --> 00:46:30,913
Him?

541
00:46:55,521 --> 00:46:56,355
Sit.

542
00:46:56,438 --> 00:46:58,273
[somber music playing]

543
00:47:01,485 --> 00:47:02,361
Quickly.

544
00:47:04,112 --> 00:47:04,988
And you.

545
00:47:16,875 --> 00:47:19,419
A voice spoke to me in a dream

546
00:47:20,295 --> 00:47:22,130
that said if I came here,

547
00:47:22,881 --> 00:47:23,966
I would meet you.

548
00:47:25,884 --> 00:47:27,261
How do you know who I am?

549
00:47:28,679 --> 00:47:30,138
I've known you all your life.

550
00:47:31,974 --> 00:47:33,809
I am Aaron, son of Amram.

551
00:47:35,811 --> 00:47:36,645
A Hebrew.

552
00:47:38,313 --> 00:47:39,523
Your older brother.

553
00:47:44,152 --> 00:47:45,070
I'm a Hebrew?

554
00:47:48,615 --> 00:47:52,411
It is a strange and wonderful story.

555
00:47:53,203 --> 00:47:54,705
[dramatic music playing]

556
00:47:55,497 --> 00:47:57,040
When I was a young boy,

557
00:47:58,208 --> 00:48:01,587
Pharaoh feared the Hebrews
were growing too numerous

558
00:48:02,170 --> 00:48:04,298
and would one day take over his kingdom.

559
00:48:05,716 --> 00:48:09,595
He decreed that all new
Hebrew males be killed.

560
00:48:12,014 --> 00:48:14,725
You were not yet born
when the killing started.

561
00:48:19,897 --> 00:48:21,523
[Carol Meyers] Aside
from the tribal groups

562
00:48:21,607 --> 00:48:23,442
that you have
at the beginning of chapter one,

563
00:48:23,525 --> 00:48:27,654
the first two people named
in the Exodus story are Shiphrah and Puah.

564
00:48:27,738 --> 00:48:29,239
And they're midwives.

565
00:48:29,323 --> 00:48:31,533
And they do something remarkable.

566
00:48:31,617 --> 00:48:36,622
They defy the orders of the most
powerful person in their world,

567
00:48:36,705 --> 00:48:38,165
the Pharaoh of Egypt,

568
00:48:39,291 --> 00:48:42,169
because they refused
to carry out the pharaoh's orders.

569
00:48:42,961 --> 00:48:44,212
You could think of them

570
00:48:44,296 --> 00:48:47,257
as the first example
of civil disobedience.

571
00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:50,427
In Exodus they are described in Hebrew as…

572
00:48:50,510 --> 00:48:52,471
[speaking Hebrew]

573
00:48:52,554 --> 00:48:56,141
[in English] …which means
"the midwives to the Hebrews,"

574
00:48:56,224 --> 00:48:59,102
or it could mean "the Hebrew midwives."

575
00:48:59,186 --> 00:49:01,563
It's impossible to know, grammatically,

576
00:49:01,647 --> 00:49:02,981
which of those it means.

577
00:49:03,065 --> 00:49:06,526
These two women
who may not be Hebrew themselves,

578
00:49:06,610 --> 00:49:09,947
they're sticking their necks out
for Hebrews.

579
00:49:12,616 --> 00:49:15,535
They don't realize
what they're setting in motion.

580
00:49:15,619 --> 00:49:16,954
But we know.

581
00:49:17,579 --> 00:49:23,835
And one of the things I find
extremely moving is maybe, just maybe,

582
00:49:23,919 --> 00:49:28,465
human redemption gets started
on a grand scale

583
00:49:28,548 --> 00:49:32,052
when people bravely stand up

584
00:49:32,552 --> 00:49:35,681
to do something for somebody else.

585
00:49:37,933 --> 00:49:40,310
[Aaron] Our mother, Jochebed,

586
00:49:41,103 --> 00:49:42,980
gave birth to you in secret.

587
00:49:43,063 --> 00:49:44,231
[baby crying]

588
00:49:45,440 --> 00:49:49,403
According to the Midrash,
when she first gives birth,

589
00:49:49,987 --> 00:49:52,864
the whole room is filled with light.

590
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:59,454
When she sees the child,
she sees that he is good.

591
00:49:59,538 --> 00:50:00,706
In Hebrew, it's…

592
00:50:00,789 --> 00:50:03,250
[speaking Hebrew]

593
00:50:03,333 --> 00:50:04,835
[in English] She sees that he is good.

594
00:50:04,918 --> 00:50:08,338
And we haven't heard that expression,
that it was good,

595
00:50:08,422 --> 00:50:11,591
since the first chapter in Genesis.

596
00:50:11,675 --> 00:50:16,013
Since the first seven days of creation.

597
00:50:18,890 --> 00:50:20,642
And she says, "He's special."

598
00:50:21,727 --> 00:50:24,938
"He needs to be hidden.
He needs to be saved."

599
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:27,024
[dramatic music playing]

600
00:50:30,610 --> 00:50:33,572
[Aaron] With the Egyptian soldiers
going door-to-door in Goshen,

601
00:50:34,614 --> 00:50:36,616
we made a plan to keep you safe.

602
00:50:42,497 --> 00:50:44,458
[knocking on door]

603
00:50:44,541 --> 00:50:47,878
-[soldier] We know there's a baby here.
-They're coming. They're coming.

604
00:50:47,961 --> 00:50:50,839
[Jochebed] Aaron, go to the hiding place.
Go to the hiding place. Go!

605
00:50:52,174 --> 00:50:54,384
[Aaron] It was my job to look after you.

606
00:50:54,468 --> 00:50:55,969
Keep you hidden.

607
00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:06,104
I told you.

608
00:51:06,688 --> 00:51:08,106
The child was stillborn.

609
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:11,234
Show us the body!

610
00:51:13,236 --> 00:51:14,905
He was buried yesterday.

611
00:51:15,781 --> 00:51:18,408
Must you trouble a mother in her grief?

612
00:51:19,576 --> 00:51:20,744
[baby fusses]

613
00:51:20,827 --> 00:51:22,329
Shh!

614
00:51:23,330 --> 00:51:25,165
Wait. Wait.

615
00:51:25,999 --> 00:51:28,001
[baby coos]

616
00:51:30,712 --> 00:51:31,546
Listen.

617
00:51:38,512 --> 00:51:42,557
[Aaron] I held you so tight,
worried that you would cry out.

618
00:51:43,266 --> 00:51:44,851
[tense music playing]

619
00:51:54,569 --> 00:51:55,737
We shall return.

620
00:51:57,197 --> 00:51:58,073
Let's go.

621
00:52:08,792 --> 00:52:12,337
No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

622
00:52:13,088 --> 00:52:14,339
Oh, no!

623
00:52:17,134 --> 00:52:18,093
No!

624
00:52:22,097 --> 00:52:24,099
[Jochebed crying]

625
00:52:29,437 --> 00:52:30,397
[fusses]

626
00:52:32,107 --> 00:52:34,151
[all sigh in relief]

627
00:52:38,655 --> 00:52:40,657
[Jochebed soothing baby]

628
00:52:49,833 --> 00:52:50,876
[Aaron] You were safe.

629
00:52:51,585 --> 00:52:55,881
But we knew it was only a matter of time
before the Egyptian soldiers returned.

630
00:52:59,467 --> 00:53:03,763
[Harris] What's interesting to me is
that in those first couple of chapters

631
00:53:03,847 --> 00:53:05,265
of the book of Exodus,

632
00:53:05,348 --> 00:53:09,769
the text focuses so heavily on the wise,

633
00:53:09,853 --> 00:53:14,024
clever and brave acts of defiance
carried out by women,

634
00:53:15,650 --> 00:53:19,321
some of them Hebrews, some of them not,

635
00:53:19,988 --> 00:53:23,491
who all take these courageous risks

636
00:53:23,575 --> 00:53:27,913
in defiance of the pharaoh's
laws and decrees.

637
00:53:33,251 --> 00:53:36,588
Moses' mother,
she makes the agonizing decision

638
00:53:36,671 --> 00:53:39,591
to put this baby in a basket,

639
00:53:40,383 --> 00:53:44,512
send it desperately off
along the waters of the Nile.

640
00:53:44,596 --> 00:53:46,556
What a desperate act.

641
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:47,766
Oh, God.

642
00:53:49,059 --> 00:53:53,813
[Harris] God, I hope there's just somebody
somewhere who isn't horrible.

643
00:53:55,732 --> 00:53:58,485
And that if there is,
that they find this baby.

644
00:53:59,611 --> 00:54:00,946
That's just crushing.

645
00:54:02,364 --> 00:54:04,366
[solemn music playing]

646
00:54:09,955 --> 00:54:12,290
[Aaron] Our mother
cast you adrift in the Nile,

647
00:54:13,291 --> 00:54:16,127
not knowing what fate
had in store for you.

648
00:54:19,589 --> 00:54:22,550
[Adelman] They're able to hide him
for three months.

649
00:54:22,634 --> 00:54:26,763
And at the end of three months
they construct a little ark.

650
00:54:26,846 --> 00:54:31,643
It's called a tevah in Hebrew.
It's the same word for Noah's Ark.

651
00:54:32,936 --> 00:54:36,398
Noah's Ark is a tevah
likewise lined with pitch.

652
00:54:36,481 --> 00:54:37,941
So you have these two stories.

653
00:54:38,024 --> 00:54:40,151
One is in the early part of Genesis,

654
00:54:40,235 --> 00:54:45,031
and now we have the early part of Exodus
where something big's gonna happen,

655
00:54:45,115 --> 00:54:46,533
and it's because of the tevah.

656
00:54:51,121 --> 00:54:56,251
And a tevah is carrying someone
that's gonna represent a new beginning.

657
00:55:11,975 --> 00:55:13,727
City of Pi-Ramesses.

658
00:55:15,562 --> 00:55:17,564
[tense music playing]

659
00:55:19,607 --> 00:55:20,692
[Moses] It has grown.

660
00:55:21,735 --> 00:55:22,819
[Aaron] A monster.

661
00:55:23,361 --> 00:55:24,571
Fed on human blood.

662
00:55:25,530 --> 00:55:26,489
Ours.

663
00:55:39,836 --> 00:55:41,129
[Pharaoh] It will be glorious.

664
00:55:42,130 --> 00:55:43,840
[woman] You are too proud, brother.

665
00:55:45,550 --> 00:55:48,053
Our father built the Temple of Amun

666
00:55:48,553 --> 00:55:51,598
so that his name
would be remembered for eternity.

667
00:55:52,265 --> 00:55:56,895
Now, you remove the dedication
and replace it with yours?

668
00:55:58,271 --> 00:56:00,982
Father made the inscription
before the temple was complete.

669
00:56:02,650 --> 00:56:05,570
[woman] Our people remember Father fondly.

670
00:56:06,738 --> 00:56:07,947
[Pharaoh] Father was a tyrant.

671
00:56:08,531 --> 00:56:11,993
Hunting down Hebrew children
because he feared rebellion.

672
00:56:14,037 --> 00:56:18,375
Amen… what is the makeup of our workforce?

673
00:56:18,458 --> 00:56:20,668
One-fifth Egyptians, Sire.

674
00:56:21,169 --> 00:56:23,588
One-fifth prisoners of war.

675
00:56:23,671 --> 00:56:25,382
The rest, Hebrews.

676
00:56:25,465 --> 00:56:27,926
Energetic, skillful workers.

677
00:56:28,009 --> 00:56:32,347
And he wanted them pruned
because he was petrified of rebellion.

678
00:56:36,059 --> 00:56:37,852
I am made of different mettle.

679
00:56:38,812 --> 00:56:41,398
And as our city scales the heavens, yes,

680
00:56:43,233 --> 00:56:45,026
our Gods shall bask in glory.

681
00:56:46,444 --> 00:56:49,447
The notion of slaves in Egypt
did not exist.

682
00:56:50,240 --> 00:56:51,533
Get to work here!

683
00:56:51,616 --> 00:56:55,453
[Hanna] But we had prisoners of war.
Uh, we had servants.

684
00:56:55,537 --> 00:56:57,205
There was forced labor.

685
00:56:58,248 --> 00:57:01,292
This was business as usual
for Egyptian kings.

686
00:57:01,376 --> 00:57:03,378
[dramatic music playing]

687
00:57:11,678 --> 00:57:15,140
[Lewter] The slave labor of Egypt

688
00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:18,309
was critical to the economy of the same.

689
00:57:18,393 --> 00:57:21,646
And so you say, "Let my people go,"

690
00:57:21,729 --> 00:57:26,860
the natural question of Pharaoh
and the entire Egyptian economy is,

691
00:57:26,943 --> 00:57:31,448
"Well, who's gonna do the work?
Who's gonna shoulder this labor?"

692
00:57:32,490 --> 00:57:34,534
Just like, uh, 1863,

693
00:57:34,617 --> 00:57:37,120
the Emancipation Proclamation
raised the question of,

694
00:57:37,203 --> 00:57:41,040
"Well, if you let all the slaves go,
who's gonna pick the cotton?"

695
00:57:48,214 --> 00:57:52,010
[narrator] Goshen sits on the outskirts
of Pi-Ramesses.

696
00:57:53,011 --> 00:57:58,183
Abraham's grandson and great-grandson
settled there four centuries earlier

697
00:57:58,808 --> 00:58:01,352
when famine drove them out of Canaan.

698
00:58:01,853 --> 00:58:03,855
[intriguing music playing]

699
00:58:06,608 --> 00:58:08,610
[Einhorn] Pharaoh says,
"Great, bring them all here."

700
00:58:08,693 --> 00:58:09,694
"They'll settle the land."

701
00:58:09,777 --> 00:58:11,321
Over time what happens,

702
00:58:11,404 --> 00:58:13,531
the Israelites are seen
as like a fourth column.

703
00:58:13,615 --> 00:58:15,909
They're growing fast.
They have their own identity.

704
00:58:15,992 --> 00:58:18,161
They're not blending in
as well as we want them to.

705
00:58:18,244 --> 00:58:19,662
We gotta watch out for them.

706
00:58:20,663 --> 00:58:24,834
So a system is then set up
whereby to keep them as not yet slaves,

707
00:58:24,918 --> 00:58:26,586
but these things happen gradually.

708
00:58:26,669 --> 00:58:30,340
Rights get taken away. Before you know it,
you look around and don't remember

709
00:58:30,423 --> 00:58:32,675
what life was like
before you had those rights.

710
00:58:33,343 --> 00:58:34,844
Hey. Hey.

711
00:58:42,810 --> 00:58:43,645
Miriam.

712
00:58:47,899 --> 00:58:49,526
This is our brother, Moses.

713
00:58:52,862 --> 00:58:55,198
[breathes deeply]

714
00:58:55,281 --> 00:58:57,242
I told you not to bring him back.

715
00:58:57,325 --> 00:58:59,410
[melancholy music swells]

716
00:59:01,955 --> 00:59:02,789
Come.

717
00:59:05,166 --> 00:59:07,961
It's fine. It's fine. Come. Please.

718
00:59:10,088 --> 00:59:10,922
Please.

719
00:59:12,257 --> 00:59:13,716
[Miriam] You must be parched.

720
00:59:18,179 --> 00:59:19,639
[Aaron] Do you want some food?

721
00:59:19,722 --> 00:59:21,474
Drink, and then you should leave.

722
00:59:24,018 --> 00:59:25,270
[Aaron] When have you eaten?

723
00:59:30,358 --> 00:59:32,110
That's how Mother wanted it.

724
00:59:32,193 --> 00:59:33,820
You should listen to him, Miriam.

725
00:59:34,612 --> 00:59:36,030
God has spoken to him.

726
00:59:37,657 --> 00:59:39,492
God comes to all of us in dreams.

727
00:59:39,576 --> 00:59:40,702
It was not a dream.

728
00:59:42,287 --> 00:59:43,871
He spoke to me on the mountain.

729
00:59:43,955 --> 00:59:46,124
He told me to come here,
to free our people,

730
00:59:46,833 --> 00:59:48,376
to lead them back to Canaan.

731
00:59:50,712 --> 00:59:54,048
Our God has not spoken to anyone
for hundreds of years.

732
00:59:54,132 --> 00:59:55,508
It is true.

733
01:00:01,556 --> 01:00:05,059
The Hebrews are in Egypt for 430 years.

734
01:00:05,143 --> 01:00:09,105
And most of that time
they've spent as slaves.

735
01:00:09,188 --> 01:00:14,861
What happened to the relationship
between God and the people of Israel

736
01:00:14,944 --> 01:00:19,157
during all those hopeless,
endless centuries of slavery?

737
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,075
Did they give up?

738
01:00:21,159 --> 01:00:25,038
Did they conclude
that the stories they'd been told

739
01:00:25,121 --> 01:00:27,457
about their ancestor Abraham

740
01:00:27,540 --> 01:00:31,336
and the promise of eventually
being a free people in the Promised Land…

741
01:00:31,419 --> 01:00:34,297
Did they just conclude that was not true?

742
01:00:34,797 --> 01:00:37,091
And the Torah doesn't tell us.

743
01:00:37,175 --> 01:00:41,971
But one of the lines
that really strikes me,

744
01:00:42,055 --> 01:00:47,101
God is telling Moses,
"I have remembered my people."

745
01:00:47,769 --> 01:00:50,647
"I have heard their cries."

746
01:00:50,730 --> 01:00:56,944
Whenever I read that, my first reaction
is like, "What took you so long?"

747
01:00:59,489 --> 01:01:01,157
[faint groaning]

748
01:01:03,284 --> 01:01:04,160
Mother.

749
01:01:05,328 --> 01:01:06,287
[groaning]

750
01:01:10,375 --> 01:01:11,292
Mother.

751
01:01:12,293 --> 01:01:14,420
-Let me take you to--
-She recognizes no one.

752
01:01:22,512 --> 01:01:24,514
[emotional music playing]

753
01:01:36,484 --> 01:01:38,194
My little Moses.

754
01:01:39,404 --> 01:01:41,614
Have you come back?

755
01:01:42,615 --> 01:01:44,784
[crying]

756
01:01:45,743 --> 01:01:47,495
Thank you.

757
01:01:50,540 --> 01:01:52,041
Oh, thank you.

758
01:01:53,126 --> 01:01:54,335
Thank you.

759
01:02:08,933 --> 01:02:10,351
[Miriam] Do not tell the foremen.

760
01:02:10,435 --> 01:02:14,188
They owe their position to the Egyptians.
Just gather the elders for now.

761
01:02:15,523 --> 01:02:18,735
Moses, when they come,
you can address them.

762
01:02:20,278 --> 01:02:22,238
Not me. Aaron.

763
01:02:26,909 --> 01:02:30,371
[Nasser] In the Qur'an, when Moses
was talking to God on the mountain,

764
01:02:30,455 --> 01:02:31,664
he told him,

765
01:02:31,748 --> 01:02:34,876
"Send Aaron with me
because he's more eloquent

766
01:02:34,959 --> 01:02:37,462
and he can express himself
better than I do."

767
01:02:37,545 --> 01:02:42,967
So the Qur'anic expression,
it's a tight or a knot in the tongue.

768
01:02:43,468 --> 01:02:47,138
How you interpret that,
it could be a physical defect,

769
01:02:47,221 --> 01:02:49,557
or it could be just psychological.

770
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:52,643
That he's really afraid
to go back to Pharaoh,

771
01:02:52,727 --> 01:02:55,897
and probably he was not
as eloquent as Aaron was.

772
01:02:56,814 --> 01:03:00,234
This is a really beautiful moment
because he's telling God,

773
01:03:00,318 --> 01:03:03,613
"Look, I really could use some help
in this big mission."

774
01:03:03,696 --> 01:03:08,367
And God responds, and Aaron is, in fact,
exalted to the status of a prophet.

775
01:03:08,451 --> 01:03:13,873
So he's acting alongside Moses
to help in this mission.

776
01:03:14,999 --> 01:03:17,460
This is Moses, my brother.

777
01:03:18,336 --> 01:03:19,504
Not an Egyptian.

778
01:03:21,047 --> 01:03:22,298
But one of us.

779
01:03:23,174 --> 01:03:25,259
He has come to us with a message.

780
01:03:28,179 --> 01:03:29,138
What message?

781
01:03:35,228 --> 01:03:37,563
Dathan, the head foreman.

782
01:03:38,231 --> 01:03:39,732
You remember my brother.

783
01:03:40,942 --> 01:03:42,068
He's a good man.

784
01:03:42,652 --> 01:03:44,403
Even when he lived as an Egyptian.

785
01:03:44,487 --> 01:03:46,823
He slew the guard that whipped Bukki.

786
01:03:48,825 --> 01:03:50,076
I remember well.

787
01:03:51,202 --> 01:03:52,119
And God…

788
01:03:54,747 --> 01:03:55,581
our God…

789
01:03:57,124 --> 01:03:58,501
God of Abraham,

790
01:03:59,168 --> 01:04:01,462
has come to my brother

791
01:04:01,546 --> 01:04:05,299
and commanded him
to lead us out of bondage

792
01:04:06,092 --> 01:04:09,637
so we may return
to the land whence we came.

793
01:04:12,348 --> 01:04:13,474
Did he say how?

794
01:04:16,519 --> 01:04:17,520
[woman] Ask him how.

795
01:04:19,522 --> 01:04:22,108
We will ask Pharaoh
to let us travel outside the city.

796
01:04:22,191 --> 01:04:23,776
-[man] My God!
-[woman 2] No!

797
01:04:23,860 --> 01:04:24,944
All of us.

798
01:04:25,903 --> 01:04:29,073
We shall say that our sacrifice
is due to our God.

799
01:04:29,156 --> 01:04:32,618
Animal sacrifices
that would anger the Egyptians.

800
01:04:33,452 --> 01:04:36,497
Pharaoh will let us go to the desert
for three days.

801
01:04:36,581 --> 01:04:38,833
Once out of sight, we will flee.

802
01:04:40,293 --> 01:04:42,211
[tense music playing]

803
01:04:42,712 --> 01:04:46,132
Son of Amram,
I want to believe your brother's story.

804
01:04:46,632 --> 01:04:49,135
But if you go to Pharaoh
with this request,

805
01:04:49,218 --> 01:04:50,761
he will laugh at you.

806
01:04:57,059 --> 01:05:00,062
My brother has spoken to God.

807
01:05:00,146 --> 01:05:01,105
[woman 3] What?

808
01:05:04,233 --> 01:05:07,194
He commanded me to free you.

809
01:05:10,281 --> 01:05:11,616
To free our people.

810
01:05:12,575 --> 01:05:14,243
If God tells us to do it,

811
01:05:15,661 --> 01:05:16,996
then it will work.

812
01:05:27,256 --> 01:05:28,299
Moses.

813
01:05:29,967 --> 01:05:31,469
Did he tell you his name?

814
01:05:32,762 --> 01:05:34,764
Yes. Yes. I know it.

815
01:05:39,101 --> 01:05:40,686
In every generation,

816
01:05:41,687 --> 01:05:44,357
the name of our God has passed down.

817
01:05:45,316 --> 01:05:48,027
So we would know it
when a time came like this.

818
01:05:50,404 --> 01:05:51,238
Serah.

819
01:05:53,115 --> 01:05:58,120
They said, "Let's consult the old lady,
Serah Bat Asher."

820
01:05:59,163 --> 01:06:01,666
Does he have the special words?

821
01:06:02,541 --> 01:06:04,460
[Miriam] You know the name, yes?

822
01:06:06,837 --> 01:06:08,255
Your mother told you.

823
01:06:12,009 --> 01:06:14,178
So if Moses knows the name,

824
01:06:15,221 --> 01:06:17,264
he has seen our God.

825
01:06:19,141 --> 01:06:20,017
Moses.

826
01:06:20,977 --> 01:06:22,979
[tense music continues]

827
01:06:41,831 --> 01:06:43,332
[singing]

828
01:06:44,458 --> 01:06:46,460
[dramatic music playing]

829
01:07:02,852 --> 01:07:03,978
God is with us.

830
01:07:04,854 --> 01:07:08,858
She says, "Ah! He has the special words,
the words of redemption."

831
01:07:08,941 --> 01:07:10,651
"He's for real."

832
01:07:12,361 --> 01:07:15,865
"He's the redeemer.
He's God's chosen prophet."

833
01:07:22,830 --> 01:07:24,081
So much for secrecy.

834
01:07:41,265 --> 01:07:43,559
Is it true? Has our God returned?

835
01:07:48,230 --> 01:07:49,315
Tell us about Him.

836
01:07:49,398 --> 01:07:51,400
[dramatic music swells]

837
01:07:55,279 --> 01:07:56,363
[Yahweh] Show them.

838
01:08:03,746 --> 01:08:06,248
He is the one true God.

839
01:08:07,750 --> 01:08:10,169
He is the God who protected Joseph

840
01:08:11,378 --> 01:08:13,547
when his brothers betrayed him.

841
01:08:14,757 --> 01:08:16,425
He is the God who told him

842
01:08:17,343 --> 01:08:22,723
that one day his bones
will be returned to Canaan.

843
01:08:24,225 --> 01:08:28,896
He is the same God
who made a contract with Abraham,

844
01:08:28,979 --> 01:08:30,981
Joseph's great-grandfather.

845
01:08:32,525 --> 01:08:35,152
So our people would belong to him forever.

846
01:08:35,236 --> 01:08:36,987
Was it Abraham who wrestled with God?

847
01:08:37,822 --> 01:08:41,492
No, that was Jacob, Joseph's father.

848
01:08:41,575 --> 01:08:44,954
He met the Lord at night
and they wrestled until dawn.

849
01:08:45,538 --> 01:08:48,374
And he would not let the Lord go
until He blessed him.

850
01:08:48,457 --> 01:08:53,129
And when the Lord blessed him,
He named him Israel.

851
01:08:54,130 --> 01:08:55,756
He who prevails with God.

852
01:08:56,757 --> 01:08:58,467
What is our homeland like?

853
01:08:58,551 --> 01:09:00,010
Is it true there was a flood?

854
01:09:00,094 --> 01:09:01,637
What about the animals?

855
01:09:01,720 --> 01:09:02,972
[all laughing]

856
01:09:03,055 --> 01:09:04,598
Yes, there was a flood.

857
01:09:05,307 --> 01:09:08,102
And the man who saved us from it
was called Noah.

858
01:09:08,185 --> 01:09:09,353
He built an ark.

859
01:09:09,436 --> 01:09:11,438
How many days did the flood last?

860
01:09:11,522 --> 01:09:13,315
Forty days and forty nights.

861
01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:14,859
How was the world made?

862
01:09:14,942 --> 01:09:17,444
Our God made it in six days.

863
01:09:18,863 --> 01:09:20,906
[narrator] And he speaks of Adam and Eve,

864
01:09:20,990 --> 01:09:24,618
Noah, Isaac, and Ishmael,

865
01:09:24,702 --> 01:09:26,328
Jacob and Esau.

866
01:09:27,705 --> 01:09:32,710
The man who fled Egypt a fugitive
returns home a prophet.

867
01:09:36,297 --> 01:09:37,673
[gentle music playing]

868
01:09:37,756 --> 01:09:39,717
How did you know I knew the name?

869
01:09:41,427 --> 01:09:42,636
I am a midwife.

870
01:09:44,263 --> 01:09:45,556
We are close to God.

871
01:09:46,432 --> 01:09:49,059
At birth and death
you can feel His presence.

872
01:09:51,103 --> 01:09:53,063
Yet you have no children of your own.

873
01:09:54,607 --> 01:09:56,650
When it was my time to take a husband,

874
01:09:58,235 --> 01:10:00,112
they were still killing baby boys.

875
01:10:04,909 --> 01:10:06,619
I prefer to help the others.

876
01:10:13,626 --> 01:10:15,127
That's where you were.

877
01:10:18,923 --> 01:10:21,008
Near the garden of the women's palace.

878
01:10:22,176 --> 01:10:23,928
When the princess collected you.

879
01:10:26,305 --> 01:10:27,139
You saw it?

880
01:10:31,644 --> 01:10:32,811
I made it happen.

881
01:10:34,939 --> 01:10:36,440
[dramatic music playing]

882
01:11:09,431 --> 01:11:11,433
[woman sobbing]

883
01:11:26,907 --> 01:11:28,242
[sobbing]

884
01:11:44,049 --> 01:11:45,509
[baby wails]

885
01:11:53,517 --> 01:11:56,687
[Ibrahim] So Moses's mother
says one word to his sister.

886
01:11:57,187 --> 01:11:58,272
"Follow him."

887
01:11:58,772 --> 01:12:01,525
And in Arabic, it's actually one word.

888
01:12:02,067 --> 01:12:06,530
And so she is quite brave
in following this child.

889
01:12:06,613 --> 01:12:09,742
Shiphrah! Shiphrah,
I need to tell you something.

890
01:12:10,534 --> 01:12:12,870
[Ibrahim] And she is very witty
on her feet

891
01:12:12,953 --> 01:12:17,499
and finds a way to get her brother
returned to their biological mother.

892
01:12:19,335 --> 01:12:21,170
Forgive me, my lady.

893
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:25,049
I know a wet nurse
for the princess's baby.

894
01:12:34,266 --> 01:12:38,812
The princess,
the daughter of Pharaoh, never asks,

895
01:12:40,064 --> 01:12:41,065
"Who are you?"

896
01:12:41,815 --> 01:12:43,901
Presumably, she does not know

897
01:12:43,984 --> 01:12:47,237
that this is the infant's
biological mother.

898
01:12:50,616 --> 01:12:56,455
So, of course the biological mother
is destined to become the one

899
01:12:56,538 --> 01:12:58,123
at whose breast he will feed,

900
01:12:58,207 --> 01:13:02,544
and he will spend
the first two or three years

901
01:13:03,087 --> 01:13:04,963
nursing at his mother's breast.

902
01:13:05,464 --> 01:13:12,054
That means that his mame-loshn,
his mother tongue, he hears from infancy,

903
01:13:13,347 --> 01:13:15,933
lullabies, Hebrew.

904
01:13:16,433 --> 01:13:18,769
Uh, I imagine a song,

905
01:13:18,852 --> 01:13:23,357
a lullaby that he took with him
in his subconscious memory.

906
01:13:23,440 --> 01:13:25,442
[humming]

907
01:13:28,153 --> 01:13:30,781
[Ibrahim] I love the fact
that the story begins

908
01:13:30,864 --> 01:13:34,618
with this one nursing woman
and her infant.

909
01:13:34,701 --> 01:13:37,996
I mean, how-- how likely
in our conception do we think

910
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:42,334
that a revolution is going to start
with a-- you know, a nursing mother?

911
01:13:46,839 --> 01:13:48,507
[Miriam] There was a higher force.

912
01:13:49,091 --> 01:13:50,050
Always.

913
01:13:50,968 --> 01:13:53,345
Taking you away, then bringing you home.

914
01:13:55,722 --> 01:13:57,474
You are our link.

915
01:13:58,851 --> 01:14:00,394
The one who goes between.

916
01:14:05,732 --> 01:14:08,402
My mother will help me
speak to Pharaoh tomorrow.

917
01:14:11,738 --> 01:14:13,907
Pharaoh's sister is not your mother.

918
01:14:15,868 --> 01:14:18,704
She is not, and yet she is.

919
01:14:22,249 --> 01:14:24,251
[dramatic music rising]

920
01:14:33,093 --> 01:14:35,095
[tense music playing]

921
01:14:36,430 --> 01:14:38,098
[handmaid] Someone approaches, my lady.

922
01:14:39,641 --> 01:14:40,851
From a long journey.

923
01:14:45,355 --> 01:14:46,315
A stranger.

924
01:14:47,608 --> 01:14:49,318
Yet he knows your heart.

925
01:14:51,695 --> 01:14:53,238
You've gone pale, my lady.

926
01:14:53,739 --> 01:14:55,073
What's wrong?

927
01:14:58,702 --> 01:15:00,287
My son has returned.

928
01:15:07,586 --> 01:15:08,837
It's Moses.

929
01:15:12,341 --> 01:15:13,800
[closing theme music playing]