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[wind whistling]
[clarinet playing]
[whip cracks]
[slaves grunting]
["Deliver Us" playing]
- [slaves] Ah... - Mud!
Sand!
Water!
Straw!
- Faster! - Oh!
Mud! And lift!
Sand! And pull!
Water! And raise up!
Straw! Faster!
[slaves] With the sting of the whip On my shoulder
- [whip cracks] - ♪ With the salt of my sweat on my brow
♪ Elohim, God on high
♪ Can you hear your people cry?
♪ Help us now
♪ This dark hour
- [whip cracks] - ♪ Deliver us
♪ Hear our call, deliver us
♪ Lord of all, remember us
♪ Here in this burning sand
♪ Deliver us
♪ There's a land you promised us
♪ Deliver us to the Promised Land
[gasps]
No!
[screaming] No!
[woman wailing]
♪ Yal-di-ha-tov, veh-harach
♪ Al ti-ra veh-al tif-chad
♪ My son, I have nothing I can give
♪ But this chance that you may live
♪ I pray we'll meet again
♪ If He will...
[slaves] Deliver us
♪ Hear our prayer Deliver us from despair
♪ These years of slavery
♪ Grow too cruel to stand
♪ Deliver us
♪ There's a land you promised us
♪ Deliver us out of bondage
♪ And...
♪ Deliver us to the Promised Land
[music slows]
♪ Hush now, my baby
♪ Be still love, don't cry
♪ Sleep as you're rocked by the stream
♪ Sleep and remember
♪ My last lullaby
♪ So I'll be with you
♪ When you dream
♪ River, o river
♪ Flow gently for me
♪ Such precious cargo you bear
♪ Do you know somewhere
♪ He can live free?
♪ River, deliver him there
[vocalizing]
[music fades]
What is that?
How beautiful he is!
The gods have smiled on him.
And on me.
But, Your Highness,
this is the sort of basket the slaves make.
The baby must be Hebrew.
- We should place it-- - No!
Don't you dare question my reasons.
Just know that I have them.
Say nothing about this.
We must find a good name for you.
Moses, Your Majesty.
Moses?
- What does that mean? - Deliverance.
♪ "Deliverance"
♪ The perfect name, "Deliverance"
♪ For you came, delivered to me
♪ By the great Blue Nile
Ramses, meet your new brother...
Moses.
♪ Brother, you're safe now
♪ And safe may you stay
♪ For I have a prayer just for you
♪ Grow, baby brother
♪ Come back some day
♪ Come and deliver us too
[chorus vocalizing]
♪ Deliver us
♪ Send a shepherd to shepherd us
♪ And deliver us to the Promised Land
♪ Deliver us to the Promised Land!
♪ Deliver us!
♪ Us
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
[fanfare playing]
Moses, I can't believe I let you talk me into this.
The last time we tried one of your crazy dares, we almost lost--
Are you backing out? If you're too scared...
[scoffs] No.
[giggles]
- No. I'm in. - [laughs]
All right, Ramses. So, we race our chariots down the edge of the cliff
and around the marketplace.
No, through the marketplace. That's faster.
All right. Through the market and the Temple of...
[both] Ptah!
- Yeah. - Wait, the temple?
- But the High Priest will be there. - That's the best part.
Can you imagine the look on Hotep's face?
Of course, if you're scared of a crabby little priest--
First through the royal gate wins.
All right, Ramses. On the word "dust."
Dust?
As in "eat... my...
dust!
Hey!
[exciting music playing]
Hyah!
♪ Wheels of the chariot spinning
♪ Barreling down from the ledge
♪ We know the best way of winning
- ♪ -Is keeping close to the edge - Whoa!
♪ Watching me pulling away in the front
♪ Ought to prove to you I'm your master
♪ There's only one thing better than going so fast
- ♪ And that's going faster! - ♪ Come on, you fools You're horses, not mules!
♪ You've got to go even faster!
♪ Thundering into the market On a magnificent steed
♪ Since there is nowhere to park it Might as well pick up some speed
♪ Whoops! Scattering melons And olives and baskets
♪ And making a small disaster
♪ No time to turn and look back at the damage we've done
♪ We've got to go faster!
We've left the marketplace in ruins!
Next target, the temple!
Maybe we'll be lucky and Hotep won't be there.
Woo! I'm counting on him being there!
♪ Praise to Ptah
[chorus] Praise to Ptah
♪ God of creation
♪ We submit to your laws
[chorus] Praise to Ptah
♪ The land of Egypt is fixed in your command
♪ Eternal, unchanging
♪ Protect us from disruption
♪ Chaos and woe
♪ Disruption, chaos, and...
Whoa!
♪ You almost toppled the statue
♪ You nearly ran over a priest
♪ Dodging the things that come at you
♪ Quick as the wind from the east
♪ Hard to avoid coming close to a crash
♪ As you nearly knock down the pilaster
♪ Look! The gates are ahead and the race will be done
♪ Got to go faster
♪ Faster
♪ Faster, faster, faster
[both] I won!
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
I cannot imagine two more disgraceful
disrespectful sons!
Do you have any excuse for this behavior?
Father, I didn't think it would be--
Precisely. You didn't think.
Again.
Father, it was entirely my idea.
Ramses was against it,
but I was the one who talked him into doing it.
I see.
Spoken like a true Prince of Egypt.
At least Moses is taking responsibility for his actions.
Well, it was my idea to race our chariots through the marketplace!
You destroyed the marketplace as well?
Oh, um, just a couple of stalls.
The Temple of Ptah will require months of repair.
I have tried to teach the royal princes respect for the gods
but this, well, this sacrilege!
I fear I have failed you, my Pharaoh.
High Priest, both royal princes have often told me
how much they value your lessons.
Isn't that so, boys?
- Huh? - Yes, we do.
So much.
Ramses, look around you
at the statues of the great Pharaohs of the past.
Do you ever want to join their company?
It is the Pharaoh's duty to preserve the divine plan.
If the crown prince is unable to live up to that duty, then--
High Priest, if either of the princes causes trouble again
there will be swift and severe punishment.
I give you my royal promise.
Your Majesty.
Young princes.
Old priest.
[laughing]
Thank you, High Priest.
The boys and I always enjoy your visits.
You have no idea how much trouble you've caused me.
Father, I understand the favor of the priests is important, but Hotep--
No, Ramses, I don't think you do understand.
Our dynasty is young.
My father and I fought together for years to take the throne
and we wouldn't have succeeded without Hotep's support.
Since then...
I have forged a chain of alliances
with the army, the noble families
and above all, the priests.
♪ One weak link
♪ Can break the strongest chain
♪ One weak king
♪ Can end the longest reign
♪ All of our enemies
♪ Look for a tiny chink
♪ Wait for that one weak link
♪ Ramses, my son
♪ Are you that one weak link?
I don't have time for this now.
I leave with the army for Midian today.
Father, give me a division to command. I can help you put down the rebels.
- Command a division? - Yes.
I can't entrust you to leave the palace
without enraging the entire priesthood!
No, you will stay here and assure your marriage
to Princess Nefertari.
[sighs] Princess Nefertari? But that's not as important--
[yelling] An alliance with the oldest royal family in Egypt
will strengthen our claim to the throne!
You will become engaged to Nefertari.
And do not give her a reason to change her mind!
Seti...
♪ One weak link
♪ Can break the strongest chain
♪ One weak son
♪ Can lose us all we've gained
♪ Don't make my worst fears come true
♪ That the one weak link
♪ That one weak link
♪ Is you!
Poor Ramses. You're too hard on him.
I fear...
not hard enough.
Ramses has to marry that awful Nefertari.
She is such a snob!
- Ramses must do his duty. - I know.
But it must be terrible to have a wife who bores you.
I... wouldn't... know.
[laughing] What are you doing? Stop.
- Don't even try that. Exactly. - [Moses] Father!
- Ooh! - Moses!
Please don't blame Ramses for my mistake.
Moses...
you will never have to carry the burden of this crown
I will pass to your brother.
Ramses must not allow himself to be led astray.
Not even by you, my son.
All he cares about is your approval.
I know he can live up to your expectations.
When you return from battle
could you give Ramses a title?
A position with real responsibility.
I hardly think this is the best time to ask...
All right.
I'll think about it.
Thank you, Father.
Moses, I know it's not easy being the second son.
I'll say.
Well, Ramses is going to get a pyramid.
All I'm going to have is a souvenir from Midian.
[all laughing]
Ah!
Ha-ha-ha!
My army awaits me. I must go.
And while I'm gone, don't do anything!
I'm good at that.
["Footprints On the Sand" playing]
♪ "The second son"
♪ My father's wrong
♪ It's got to be the easiest role on Earth
♪ Just play around
♪ Just play along
♪ Enjoy the bounty of my birth
♪ So what's today's amusement For this second son?
♪ Which one shall I choose from?
♪ So many kinds of fun?
♪ Which one?
♪ I could ride one of the horses
♪ Go and shoot some arrows
♪ Take a sail on the royal barque
♪ But standing in the shadows
♪ Of these statues of the pharaohs
♪ I see the contrast couldn't be more stark
♪ Their deeds forever known
♪ In story, song, and stone
♪ While I won't leave the faintest mark
♪ Like the humblest of slaves
♪ I won't leave the faintest mark
♪ Footprints on the sand
♪ Ripples on the river
♪ Wispy drifting clouds
♪ That blow across the desert sky
♪ One day we are here
♪ And the next we vanish
♪ Vanish in the blink of an ibis eye
♪ We vanish in the blink of an ibis eye
♪ It's not that I want glory
♪ Or the world to know my name
♪ But maybe just to leave things
♪ A little changed from when I came
♪ But it's not my lot
♪ Use what you've got
♪ And all I am is footprints
♪ On the sand
♪ Ripples on the river
♪ Echoes of a sound
♪ From a distant fading chime
♪ One day we are here
♪ Next I know we vanish
♪ But I'm a fool
♪ And so I like to fool myself
♪ That I'm...
Ha!
♪ Not just footprints on the sand
♪ But someone who'll leave footprints
♪ On the sands
♪ Of time!
- [song ends] - [audience applauding]
[music playing]
♪ One weak link
♪ Can break the strongest chain
♪ One weak son
♪ Can lose us all we've gained
♪ Don't make my worst fears come true
♪ That the one weak link
♪ That one weak link
♪ That one weak link is--
[Moses] Ramses!
Ramses, where are you?
I know you're in here.
Our secret room.
- Here, I brought you your clothes so-- - Go away!
You've torn me down enough for one day.
- Stop feeling sorry for yourself. - Huh?
Father thinks a lot of you.
Yes. And none of it is good!
Every time he looks at me, I can see the disappointment on his face.
Once you're engaged and made an alliance with the royal family of Nefertari--
Nefertari! No, no, no! I'm meeting her on the royal barge this afternoon!
- I'll never be ready in time! - Of course you will.
That's why I brought you your clothes.
- Oh! - [mocking] Oh!
[chuckles]
- What would I do without you? - Now come on, I'll help you dress.
And Father...
Well, I have a feeling he might have something in store for you.
- [scoffs] Really? - You'll see.
♪ It will come true
♪ One day he will see What I have always known is there
♪ Greatness in you
♪ He'll see the nobility You both so clearly share
♪ And thank Horus and Osiris
♪ That you're his son and heir
♪ I'm his son...
♪ And heir
There.
- Whoo-hoo! - Whoo! [laughs]
Nefertari will be swooning at your feet.
You've always got my back.
Well, I certainly don't want to look at your front.
Now go meet your future queen.
Wait. Aren't you coming with me?
Oh, no. This is much too important.
The last thing you need is a troublemaker like me hanging around.
Now hurry!
♪ While I leave faithful
♪ Fleeting footprints on the sand
[regal music playing]
[chorus vocalizing]
[music stops]
So, Princess Nefertari...
how do you like the royal barge?
Very few have the privilege of sailing on her.
My family's barge is bigger.
Nefertari, we are so looking forward to welcoming you into our family.
I believe you have it the wrong way around.
We are considering whether to welcome you.
My family is the most ancient royal family in Egypt.
We understand why you are eager to make an alliance.
I'm eager to make an alliance because of your beauty
and your intelligence, and charm, and your...
And...
Ah!
- Shall we discuss the terms? - Indeed.
- Let's get down to business. - Yes.
We want temples built for the pharaohs of our family
who've not been properly honored.
Very good.
But in return,
Pharaoh will expect the princes loyal to your family
to swear allegiance to him.
Of course, that is contingent upon Seti conquering the desert rebels.
My father will return victorious from the desert.
He always does.
If all these conditions are met,
then I will marry you.
This is like a love poem come to life.
My family will find an auspicious date for the wedding.
I believe the barge has returned to the dock.
My congratulations, Princess.
Uh, Nefertari...
[chuckles]
Are you, uh...
Are you happy about our marriage?
Of course. We're making a strong alliance.
No, no, no.
I mean about you and me.
Are you happy that you're marrying me?
- You're going to be Pharaoh. - Yes.
And my family will have a queen of Egypt again.
It's everything I've dreamed of.
But you've never dreamt of, you know...
sharing your life with someone?
Being in love?
Of course I have. There was a time
when I was a little girl that I used to think that I--
But I don't have the freedom for girlish dreams.
I have my duties. As do you, Your Highness.
[boisterous music playing]
♪ Life! Health! Strength!
♪ Menma'atre seti merenp'tah
♪ Now we celebrate your blessed return
♪ Life! Health! Strength!
Ooh!
Father, you're injured!
I'm fine. [chuckles] It's nothing.
We should cancel the ceremony. You need to rest.
The Pharaoh of Egypt does not rest.
The people expect a victory celebration.
My people...
I have returned to you
as the Conqueror of Midian!
- [excited chatter] - [clapping]
[all singing] ♪ Mighty Seti, conqueror of Midian
♪ Long may you reign!
♪ Life! Health! Strength!
♪ Menma'atre Seti merenp'tah
♪ Long may you reign
I prefer this welcome to the one I received in the desert!
[all laughing]
And I have other news
that gladdens my heart even further.
Tonight, we rejoice
in the betrothal of Prince Ramses to Princess Nefertari.
My son's new station in life deserves a fitting title.
So...
I hereby promote Ramses to be my Viceroy
responsible for choosing all royal ministers.
Congratulations, Viceroy!
Father, I thank you.
I promise, I won't let you down.
As my first act as Viceroy
I appoint Moses...
Assistant Viceroy
in charge of overseeing the temple complex!
Viceroy, I beg you reconsider.
Prince Moses is highly inappropriate for such a position.
I think Prince Moses is perfect for the job.
- Your Majesty, you cannot allow-- - The Viceroy has spoken.
High Priest, I promise I will live up to my new duties
in ways you cannot imagine.
And now, let the celebrations continue!
- Ramses... - Yes, Father?
To honor your new title, I have brought you a gift from the desert.
Bring in the Midian girl!
- [claps] - [excited chatter]
They say Midianites are good dancers. Let's see.
[girl yelps]
Go on, girl. Dance for your new master.
[grunts]
[whimpering]
["Dance to the Day" playing]
♪ You think you've captured me My body and my soul
♪ You think I'm yours In your command and your control
♪ You bid me dance For your pleasure and your glee
♪ And I could stand here stubbornly
♪ But no, I will dance
♪ But my dance will be only for me
♪ I dance to the day I am free
Ah. Ha!
[growls]
♪ A-Ni Chof-She-Yah
♪ E'-Heh-Yeh Chof-She-Yah
♪ Ta-Meed E'-Heh-Yeh Chof-She-Yah
- Please. - ♪ A-Ni Chof-She-Yah
♪ E'-Heh-Yeh Chof-She-Yah
♪ Ta-Meed E'-Heh-Yeh Chof-She-Yah!
Let her out of the cage!
- She'll dance much better. - Yes!
- [grunts] - Guards, release her!
Good idea, Moses. Now let's see what she can do.
- [music continues] - [onlookers gasp]
♪ How did you like that? Did it thrill your swollen pride?
♪ You think you've chained me here But you're the one who's tied
♪ To your arrogant kingdom
♪ Which you cannot understand
♪ Someday will crumble back to sand
♪ And then I will dance
♪ Or if that day I don't live to see
♪ All of the others like me
♪ Will dance to the day we are free
♪ I dance
♪ Dance to the day I am free!
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
Take her away!
That slave girl does not show sufficient respect
- for her master, the future Pharaoh. - [grunting]
But what spirit!
She's fearless. Whoo-hoo!
And did you see that sensuous...
Let us celebrate my father's historic victory!
Yes, yes!
[music playing]
♪ Menma'atre Seti Merenp'tah
♪ Menma'atre Seti
♪ Life! Health! Strength!
- [choking] - [grunts]
That'll be all. Good night.
[guard groaning]
- [gasps] No! - What is this? Who are you?
You're the slave girl Father gave to--
I am no slave!
And I have a name! Tzipporah.
You're not going anywhere, Tzipporah.
- Guards! - Please! Just let me go!
How can you be so ungrateful to Prince Ramses?
He's going to be Pharaoh one day.
And any girl in her right mind would give everything to be a royal slave!
Well, of course you would think that! It's just as I said...
♪ You're the one who's tied To your arrogant kingdom
Yes, I know...
♪ Which I cannot understand
- Someday will crumble back to sand - That's right.
♪ And then you will dance
Yes.
♪ To the day I am free
What does that mean? Free to be hungry?
Free to search for water and food in the desert like a wild animal?
No.
Enjoy the life of luxury that has been given to you.
In Midian, we say, if you don't choose your own path
you are lost no matter where you go.
♪ A-Ni Chof-She-Yah
♪ E'-Heh-Yeh Chof-She-Yah
♪ Ta-Meed E'heh-Yeh Chof-She-Yah
What is that? What are you saying?
♪ I am free, I will be free
♪ I will always
- Be free! - No, wait! I can't let you--
Moses! Moses, do you know what?
That Midian girl has disappeared. I have no idea--
Hey. That's her veil.
You took her!
Me? No! She ran in here. I tried to stop her.
Hey.
She was in your bed chamber?
She said the strangest things.
I think she'd rather starve in the desert than be with you, right?
That doesn't speak very highly of you.
You think this is a joke, stealing her?
Why would I steal a girl from you?
Maybe because Father finally favored me for once
and you couldn't stand it.
That's crazy.
You're jealous. [laughs]
And you wanted to get back at me.
- Do you want a fight? - You asked for it.
[grunting]
- [grunting] - How'd you like that, Moses? Hey...
- [groans] - How dare you!
- Ow! That's cheating. - So is taking my tribute.
I'll find the girl and bring her back.
- [groans] - She can't have gone far.
[exciting music playing]
[people clamoring]
Stop that woman!
[woman groans]
I'm sorry. I just, um...
I...
Moses?
I didn't expect to see you here.
- At last, this is God's doing. - Out of my way, slave!
- Hi! - You dare touch me?
God has led you to me...
um, to us, your real brother and sister.
Forgive her, Your Highness. She's lost her senses after the day's work.
Not that we're complaining about our workload.
We quite enjoy it.
If you're here, deliverance must finally be at hand.
Aaron, I told you to have faith!
She's obviously lost her mind.
- Take the poor woman away. - Thank you, Your Highness.
Yes, I'm afraid she's gone quite insane. Miriam, come with me.
No, Aaron. This is what happens when you believe.
You are rewarded for your faith.
- Miriam, be quiet! - I know how I sound!
I know that people are always laughing at me
saying I'm crazy. But...
God has given me visions.
When I saw the Queen take you out of the river...
I knew that God had saved you to be our deliverer.
I have waited for this moment my whole life.
Did anyone see where the Midian girl went?
Yes, I saw the woman run past me!
She was headed towards the desert.
- Show me. - No!
Now that you're here, you can't leave us again!
You must remember--
- Follow me! - [sobs]
["All I Ever Wanted" playing]
♪ Hush now, my baby
♪ Be still, love, don't cry
♪ Sleep as you're rocked by the stream
- What are you singing? - [man] Your Highness, this way.
♪ Sleep and remember
♪ My last lullaby
I know that song.
♪ So I'll be with you when you dream
- What? - Wait, please.
It really is, Moses. I am--
No, it can't be.
No, it can't be!
[music intensifies]
♪ Gleaming in the moonlight
♪ Cool and clean And all I've ever known
♪ All I ever wanted
♪ Sweet perfumes of incense
♪ Graceful rooms of alabaster stone
♪ All I ever wanted
♪ This is my home
♪ With my father, mother, brother
♪ Oh so noble, oh so strong
♪ And now I am home
♪ Here among my trappings and belongings
♪ I belong
♪ And if anybody doubts it
♪ They couldn't be more wrong
♪ I am still a sovereign prince of Egypt
♪ A son of the proud history That's shown
♪ Etched here on the wall
♪ Surely this is all I ever wanted
♪ All I ever wanted
♪ All I ever...
[baby crying]
[faint screams]
[baby crying]
[music continues]
Oh!
No!
[screaming] No! No!
No!
♪ Yal-Di-Ha-Tov, Veh-Harach
♪ Al Ti-Ra Veh-Al Tif-Chad
♪ My son, I have nothing I can give
♪ But this chance that you may live
- Ah! - [Moses trembles]
The guards said you ran into the palace
as if you'd been pursued by a ghost.
Is something wrong?
I've been in this room countless times
but I've never really looked at the pictures on these walls before.
Yes.
The Hebrews.
These things...
You did them?
The Hebrews were growing too numerous.
And there was the possibility
they were conspiring to revolt with the Midianites.
A possibility?
♪ Sometimes, for the good of all
♪ Sacrifices must be made
Sacrifices?
♪ Sometimes one must do things
♪ Make a bitter choice that scars your soul
♪ This I never wanted
♪ Pharaohs make decisions
♪ I must keep our kingdom safe and whole
♪ Not just what I wanted
My son.
Why would you call me that?
Moses!
♪ Glistening in the sunrise
♪ See the river dance In greens and blues
♪ All I ever wanted
♪ Now the Nile is singing
♪ Telling of how much it hurts to lose
♪ All I ever wanted...
This is where I found you.
A basket in the bullrushes with...
the most beautiful baby I had ever seen inside.
[Moses] A Hebrew baby.
After Ramses' birth, I couldn't have any more children.
To me, you were a gift from the gods
my son as truly as if you came from my own body.
Yes, but I didn't!
The blessings of the Pharaoh's family did not apply to me.
I'm not...
I'm not beloved by the gods.
And when I die, I won't be with you in the House of Horus.
I don't belong here. I don't know where I belong.
♪ This is your home, my son
♪ Here the river brought you
♪ And it's here the river meant
♪ To be your home
♪ Now you know the truth, love
♪ Now forget and be content
♪ When the gods send you a blessing
♪ You don't ask why it was sent
♪ I am still a sovereign prince of Egypt
♪ A drop in the eternal stream that flows
♪ From the golden font
♪ Now I know it's all I ever wanted
♪ All I ever wanted
♪ All I'll ever...
♪ Want
[whip cracks]
[song fades]
Prince Moses has drawn up his vision of the new temple.
Ugh. Has he indeed?
We cannot rededicate a temple
once the foundation ceremony has been performed.
You can do whatever the Assistant Viceroy tells you to do.
- [whip cracks] - [man screams]
Moses, tell them what you want.
- Get up! - Moses?
I said, get up!
- [yells in pain] - [Moses] Did you see that?
I don't see anything.
Explain your plans to the High Priest.
Please?
- Here we see an avenue of sphinxes... - [slave screams]
...with obelisks at the end leading to a massive gate.
He won't stop whipping that man! He can't get up!
Once you pass through, you arrive in the court.
Miriam, there's nothing we can do.
Statues of the pharaohs of the Old Kingdom...
- Can't someone help him? - It will be quite the impressive sight.
- Then I will! - Miriam, no!
- Stop whipping him! - Get back to work!
- [screaming] - Stop it! Stop beating those slaves!
- Moses! - I command you to stop!
- Moses? - Do you dare to disobey me?
Hey! [grunting]
[groans]
[grunting]
[suspenseful music playing]
[loud bang]
Swift and severe punishment, that's what Pharaoh promised me!
♪ He has transgressed
♪ The laws of the gods
[all] The laws of the gods
♪ Eternal, unchanging
- ♪ Protect us from disruption - ♪ Eternal, unchanging
- ♪ Protect us from disruption - ♪ Chaos and woe
♪ Disruption, chaos and woe
♪ Woe
- Moses! - No!
Moses!
Moses, where do you think you're going?
You're almost at the edge of the desert.
No one can survive out there.
Hey.
Hey. Are you worried about that accident?
He was just a guard, one step above a slave.
A prince of Egypt can't be punished for--
- But I'm not a prince of Egypt. - Huh?
What are you talking about?
There's no royal blood in my veins. I was born a Hebrew.
[laughs]
Ask Father and Mother if you don't believe me.
Huh?
I'm a Hebrew!
If that's true, no one must ever know that.
I can't keep it a secret.
Of course you can. We can!
Look! Look! You're in shock.
You're not thinking straight, so just come back with me now.
No, I can't stay where I don't belong!
♪ You know I can't live without you
♪ At least I wouldn't want to try
♪ So don't expect I'll stand here And do nothing
♪ As you say goodbye
♪ Now you think you have to leave me
♪ You think your only choice is flight
♪ But as we always have, we'll think of something
♪ That will make it right
♪ I will make it right
♪ Find a way to fix it
♪ Leave it up to me to make it better
♪ Stronger than I've ever been
♪ We will walk in light
♪ Like this never happened
♪ And we'll keep your secret safe forever
♪ You can count on me to win this fight
♪ For you
- ♪ I will make it right - ♪ Thank you, my brother
♪ I love you want to try
♪ But there's no way to deny
♪ The crumbling of the lie
♪ That has haunted me from birth
♪ And no power on Earth
♪ Can change the past
♪ No power on Earth
♪ Can make a lie be true
♪ Though it breaks my heart to leave you
♪ There's nothing I can do
♪ Maybe the rest of the world can be fooled
♪ But that still leaves us two
♪ And no power on Earth
♪ Can change that, brother
♪ Not even you
But I will be Pharaoh, the living god
and if I say day is night, it will be written.
And I say you are innocent. I say you...
you are my brother.
No, Ramses!
- ♪ No power on Earth - ♪ I will make it right
- ♪ Can change the past - ♪ Find a way to fix it
- ♪ No power on Earth - ♪ Leave it up to me
- ♪ Can make a lie be true - ♪ To make it better
♪ Stronger than I've ever been
♪ Though it breaks my heart to leave you
- ♪ We will walk in light - ♪ There's nothing I can do
♪ Like this never happened
♪ Maybe the rest of the world can be fooled
♪ And we'll keep your secret safe forever
♪ But that still leaves us two
♪ You can count on me to win this fight for you
♪ And no power on Earth Can change that, brother
♪ Not even you
- ♪ I will find the might - ♪ Try with all your might
- ♪ I will make it - ♪ You can't make it
♪ Right
- [song ends] - [audience applauding]
Moses!
["Moses in the Desert" playing]
♪ Where is the Lord?
♪ Where is the Lord
♪ In this land of deserts and of pits
♪ This land of drought
♪ And deep darkness?
♪ Where is the Lord
♪ Here in this wilderness
♪ This land no one has crossed
♪ And where no one dwells?
[music continues]
♪ Blow, you desert sands
♪ Scour me and cleanse me
♪ Till I cannot see
♪ Till I can no longer stand
♪ Blow, you desert winds
♪ Till even the gods can't find me
♪ In this gods-forsaken land
♪ And cover every footprint
♪ I leave on the faceless sand
[song fades]
[woman singing] ♪ Lai lai lai lai liddle lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai lai lai lai lai Lai lai lai lai liddle lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai lai lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai lai liddle lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai lai lai lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai lai liddle lai lai
- ♪ Lai lai lai lai lai lai - Go away!
This well belongs to us!
No, it doesn't! It's everyone's!
- Our sheep need water! - Well, too bad.
They're not getting any water here.
Our father is the High Priest of Midian.
Oh, the High Priest of Midian! That's even worse.
Your people caused all the trouble with the Pharaoh
because you're too proud and stubborn to bend your knee.
That's right!
♪ A-Ni Chof-She-Yah E'-Heh-Yeh Chof-She-Yah
♪ Ta-Meed E'-Heh-Yeh Chof-She-Yah
I lost my brother in a war your people started!
- You hit my sister! - Come back here, you!
- No! We're going! Come on! No! - Don't hit her, please!
- Hey! - Hold still! Hey.
- Huh? - Let the girls use the well!
And who are you to give us orders?
I am...
nobody.
So nobody's going to get in our way! Take this!
Stop! No! [grunts]
- [grunting] - [yelling]
- [groaning] - [grunting]
Let's get out of here! [groaning]
[men grunting]
- [groaning] - Thank you...
- nobody. - No worries.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I just need a small sip of wat--
Whoa!
[loud splash]
He fell in!
Why did he do that?
He seemed very tired.
Don't worry, we'll get you out.
Let's pull the bucket up.
Leah! Keturah!
Oh, Father has been looking for you!
Tzipporah! Help us!
What are you girls doing?
We're trying to get the funny man out of the well.
Well, that's one I've never heard before.
[Moses moaning]
- Oh, there's a man in the well! - I just said that.
Uh... Well, hold on to the bucket!
Well, come on!
He's coming up!
He's getting higher!
He's almost here! We got him!
It's you!
What?
- [Moses yelling] - [loud splash]
[Tzipporah] Ugh!
That's why Papa said she'll never get married.
From the edge of the great oasis--
Father, you can't let that man stay here.
He deserves to die!
He was going to force me to be the Crown Prince's--
Ah! Uh...
Well, I can't even say it.
He defended your sisters
and you told me he was the one who let you escape.
I did not say that. I said, I escaped from his room!
It seems almost the same thing to me.
- He is an enemy of our people. - Perhaps.
But at the moment, he is our guest.
Why do you always say the opposite to what I say?
I don't know. It just works out that way.
Welcome to the land of the Midianites!
- That's our father. - He's the High Priest!
- Thank you, High Priest. - Oh, no, no, no. Please, please.
You must call me Jethro.
- I sit on my father's right. - [Jethro] Tzipporah!
- You can sit with me! - [Moses] Thank you.
We will tell you about ourselves
and you can tell us stories of your life.
Here in the desert, we love to hear stories.
[all agreeing]
My children, let us give thanks for this bountiful food.
And let us also give thanks for the presence of this brave young man
- whom we honor here tonight. - Please, don't.
I've done nothing in my life worth honoring.
Well, that's true.
Send him away, Father. Why are you doing this?
I don't know yet.
But I think his story and ours have joined for a reason.
- We will find out together. - I don't have a story anymore.
I'm just a stranger in a strange land.
We all have a story. But not all of us know what it is.
♪ A single thread in a tapestry
♪ Though its color brightly shine
♪ Can never see its purpose
♪ In the pattern of the grand design
♪ And the stone that sits at the very top
♪ Of the mountain's mighty face
♪ Does it think it's more important
♪ Than the stones that form the base?
♪ So how can you see what your life is worth
♪ Or where your value lies?
♪ You can never see through the eyes of man
♪ You must look at your life
♪ Look at your life through heaven's eyes
- [chorus] ♪ Lai lai lai lai liddle lai - [laughing]
♪ Lai lai lai lai lai lai Lai lai lai lai liddle lai lai
♪ lai lai lai lai lai lai lai
Dance with me!
No, I'll just stand here and watch.
- Come on, dance with me! - I don't know how.
♪ Lai lai lai lai liddle lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai liddle lai lai Lai lai lai lai lai lai lai
♪ A lake of gold in the desert sand
♪ Is less than a cool fresh spring
♪ And to one lost sheep a shepherd boy
♪ Is greater than the richest king
♪ If a man lose everything he owns
♪ Has he truly lost his worth?
♪ Or is it the beginning
♪ Of a new and brighter birth?
♪ So how do you measure the worth of a man?
♪ In wealth or strength or size?
♪ In how much he gained or how much he gave?
♪ The answer will come
to him who tries
♪ To look at his life through heaven's eyes
♪ And that's why we share all we have with you
♪ Though there's little to be found
♪ When all you've got is nothing
♪ There's a lot to go around
♪ No life can escape being blown about
♪ By the winds of change and chance
♪ And though you'll never know all the steps
♪ You must learn to join the dance
Come, come, come!
[dancers cheering]
[upbeat music playing]
[song ends]
Come! Moses, join the dance!
Well, I can't do that.
[laughing]
Just follow me. It'll come naturally.
- Come on, Moses. - Come on, Moses.
- You can do it. - Bend your knees.
- Give it a go! - Come on, Moses.
- Just feel the rhythm! - Give it a try, man.
- That's it! Come on. - That's it. Come on!
[all] Hey!
- Whoo! - Come on, Moses!
[whoops]
That's it!
Hey!
- There you go! - Yeah!
♪ Hey! Lai lai lai lai liddle lai lai Lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai liddle lai lai Lai lai lai lai lai lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai lai liddle lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai liddle lai lai Lai lai lai lai lai lai lai lai
♪ Lai lai lai liddle lai lai Lai lai lai lai lai lai
♪ So how do you judge what a man is worth?
♪ By what he builds or buys?
♪ You can never see with your eyes on Earth
♪ Look through heaven's eyes
♪ Look at your life
through heaven's
♪ Eyes
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
[majestic music playing]
Father, give me a band of soldiers
and I'll lead them into the desert after Moses.
- I'll find him and I'll bring him home. - No.
Nefertari's family will use this scandal
to cancel the wedding and move against us.
But he'll die out there!
If he hasn't already.
- Oh! [moans] - Seti! Seti!
- Are you all right? - I just need to sit down for a moment.
You pretend you don't care, but this is destroying you.
It's just my injury from the Midian campaign.
No, it's Moses!
He's your son!
He's in the desert without food, and without water.
I would give my life to save Moses.
But my life is not mine to give.
Father, I don't understand.
You will someday.
I am Pharaoh.
Egypt is my firstborn and my lastborn.
I must think of Egypt before all else.
Even before the life of my son.
What nonsense are you speaking?
I'll run after him into the desert myself if I have to!
No, you won't!
You are the Queen of Egypt. You will do your duty.
I issue a proclamation
that Moses shall be banished from Egypt forever
for the murder of a guard.
You can't.
Mother... Mother, talk to him.
He always listens to you.
So it is written.
Father!
Mother?
Moses, where are you?
♪ Through every prankish endeavor
♪ Every wild chariot ride
♪ One thing I thought was forever
♪ You'd always be at my side
♪ There was a time I thought that time would last
♪ And somehow I'd be time's master
♪ Too young and stupid
♪ To realize that time moves so fast
♪ Now it seems even faster
[sheep bleating]
[laughing]
You look lost in thought.
- I'm worried about Dinah. - Dinah?
Yeah, the sheep by the tree stump.
I'm afraid Dinah may have gone lame.
You've named the sheep?
Of course I have. I spend so much time with them.
You see Sarah chewing on that old piece of leather?
She's so stubborn, she's convinced it's a piece of food.
She'll keep chewing on it all day.
- [chuckles] - And Micah next to her,
he's such a tease. He loves to annoy her.
Look at you. You used to live in a palace
with hundreds of slaves looking after your every need
And now hundreds of sheep look to me for their every need.
And you know what? I've never been happier.
I love them.
Well, do you feel the same way...
about people?
Sheep are simpler.
[both laugh]
- Some of them. - Oh.
Tzipporah is nosing the ewes back to the center of the flock.
There's a sheep named after me?
How do you know it's not the other way around?
A sheep?
- She is bossy. - Bossy?
And has a terrible temper.
[scoffs]
And she's courageous and smart.
She's my favorite.
Can you see the ram over there?
Oh, the one with the big horns?
What's his name?
I haven't thought of a name for him yet.
But see how he glances over at her?
He wants to go over, but he doesn't dare.
He's afraid he's not worthy of her.
Well, he shouldn't worry.
She won't mind if he approaches.
How can you tell?
♪ She's got him in the corner of her eye
♪ To her he's the best-looking thing in the world
I suppose it's possible.
♪ Stranger things have happened
Like us...
for instance?
♪ Would you ever have thought
♪ Given where we started
♪ You and I would chance to meet?
♪ Never in a million years
♪ And now could you have dreamed
♪ If we should be parted
♪ We'd feel somehow incomplete?
♪ Never in a million years
♪ Could you ever have imagined we'd be here like this
♪ Ever nearing the inevitable day we...
♪ Kiss?
♪ And if you should ask how soon I think
♪ This feeling disappears
♪ Never in a million years
[music swells]
Oh, look! The ram, he's making a move.
He's walking towards her.
Oh, he's nuzzling her nose.
- Does he dare to hope? - [chuckles]
- Oh. - No, she's turned her back on him.
Oh, no. She's not running away.
Oh, he is getting closer to her.
She's not moving. And now he's...
[both gasp] Oh.
Oh, I think you may have an addition to your flock in a few months.
Daniel has wandered off. I better go find him.
Oh! Well, don't forget your staff.
[laughs]
I guess I'm a little bit...
Thanks.
♪ Could I ever have imagined
♪ I'd be here like this
♪ In the afterglow of finally reaching our first kiss?
♪ And if I were asked how soon I think this feeling disappears
♪ Never in a million years
♪ My love
♪ Never in a million years
[fanfare playing]
[chorus] Hasten to Ra
♪ Say unto him
♪ Who lifts his arm in the east
♪ That the king is coming as a god
♪ That the king stands in the palace of the horizon
♪ Behold he comes
My son.
Our people...
and our dynasty are now in your hands.
- Father... Father, don't tire yourself. - Listen to him, Ramses.
I must know...
before I...
- He means to say... - I understand.
♪ No weak link
♪ Ever shall break our chain
♪ No weak king
♪ Ever shall end our reign
♪ Father, I promise you
♪ I will meet every task
♪ Father, I swear I'll do
♪ All you would hope
♪ Or ask
Then...
I am not afraid.
- [sobbing] No, no, no! - No!
Your Majesty, Lord of the Two Lands,
beloved by Amun,
your queen kneels before you.
♪ This is why you were born
♪ This is what you were made for
♪ This is who you will be
♪ The rest of your long life through
♪ Now this life that was yours
♪ Belongs not only to you
♪ Now you know what you must be
♪ Now you know what you must do
[music continues]
[Moses whistling]
Daniel?
[clicking tongue]
Where are you?
[chorus] Moses...
♪ Moses...
Here I am.
♪ Behold, a bush that burns with fire
♪ But is not consumed...
What do you want with me?
♪ Take the sandals from your feet
♪ For you stand on holy ground
Who are you?
♪ I am that I am
[fire crackling]
[Moses] I don't understand.
♪ I am the god of your ancestors
♪ Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
♪ I have heard the cry of my people
♪ In oppression in Egypt
♪ Now I will send forth a messenger
♪ To deliver them up out of bondage
♪ To a land of milk and honey
♪ Now I send you!
- It couldn't have been real. - No, it couldn't. Except it was.
The most real thing I've ever seen.
The moment I stood before the burning bush
I understood for the first time in my life
there's something bigger than me, something greater than all of us.
I don't believe in miracles.
♪ Was that a miracle?
♪ Hard to believe
♪ But I know what my ears heard
♪ What my eyes seemed to see
♪ And even if I dreamed it
♪ How can I live
♪ Knowing my people languish
♪ While only I am free?
Tzipporah, a very wise girl once told me
if you don't choose your own path, you're lost no matter where you go.
I know my path now.
I must return to Egypt and free my people.
♪ I saw a miracle
♪ And now it's up to me
Well, of course, I'm not going to let you go alone.
I promise, we will return when this is done
but this is something I must do.
I know.
♪ This is why you were born
♪ This is what you were made for
- ♪ This is who you will be - ♪ This is who you will be
♪ The rest of your long life through
- ♪ Now this life that was yours - ♪ O, mighty Ramses Miamun
- ♪ Belongs not only to you - ♪ O, mighty pharaoh
♪ Now you know what you must do
♪ Now my life is changing
♪ Will life from now on turn out to be
♪ All I ever wanted?
♪ So much rests on me now
- ♪ Is this vast responsibility - ♪ Isn't that the thing I said
- ♪ All I ever wanted? - ♪ Was all I ever wanted?
♪ All that I ever...
[chorus] Deliver us
♪ Deliver us
♪ Remember us
- ♪ Will my new life be - ♪ Here in this burning sand
- ♪ All I ever wanted? - ♪ Deliver us
- ♪ There's a land you promised us - ♪ All I ever wanted?
♪ Deliver us to the Promised Land
♪ And will all I ever wanted
- ♪ Deliver us - ♪ Deliver me
♪ To the Promised Land
[continues]
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
[upbeat music playing]
I never dreamed I'd return to this place.
Neither did I.
This used to be my home
but now I don't belong here any more than you do.
Your family will be happy that you're alive.
I don't even know if they'll want to see me.
Make them see you.
♪ Though this journey was rugged and long
♪ And probably unwise
♪ You can truly say Even if it goes wrong
♪ You looked through heaven's eyes
♪ Help them to look through heaven's eyes
♪ Life! Health! Strength!
Seven days have passed since the birth of Pharaoh's son.
And on the seventh day the gods have decreed
that we bless the firstborn and give him his birth name...
♪ Heaven protects you
...registering him in the book of the House of Life.
♪ Night protects you
♪ Day protects you
- ♪ Heaven protects you - ♪You are protected like gold
♪ Earth protects you
- ♪ Night protects you, day protects you - ♪ You are protected like stone
- ♪ You are protected like the seven gods - ♪ Heaven protects you
- ♪ Night protects you Day protects you - ♪ Who made the world
What is the name you give your son?
Seti the Second.
Your father would be proud.
In the name of Amun-Ra
the Father, Horus the Son of Isis,
and Kneph the Spirit of the River Nile,
I name you Seti the Second,
heir to the throne of the living god
Pharaoh Ramses.
♪ Mighty Pharaoh Ramses
♪ Queen Nefertari
♪ Seti the Second
♪ Life! Health! Strength!
♪ Life! Health!
Stop! This is a royal celebration!
I am here to see my father, the Pharaoh.
There are no strangers allowed in the throne room!
But I'm not a stranger.
[laughs nervously] It can't be.
Everyone said
you were dead.
- Moses! - Ramses!
It's been so long, and you were on the throne.
I am Pharaoh now.
Then Father?
- And Mother? - Oh.
She's different than when you left, Moses.
She rarely leaves her chambers.
- She never really recovered from Father's death. - [Tzipporah grunts]
Isn't this that Midian girl who escaped?
You brought her back to me just like you said you would!
You kept your promise.
What promise?
It was a long time ago.
Ramses, Tzipporah is my wife.
- What? - Excuse me, Your Majesty.
I'm compelled to remind you that Pharaoh Seti
banished Moses from Egypt for life.
Hotep, you're still here.
I will always be here.
- You, on the other hand-- - This is my brother!
Oh. He's come back from the dead
and I am going to welcome him back into my family.
Ramses, you can't!
He pretended to be a member of your family
- then ran off and married a slave! - I was never a slave!
- In fact, I'm more of a princess than you are. - [onlookers] Ooh!
I'm descended from five generations of Pharaohs!
There are ten generations of high priests in my family!
- How dare a desert savage speak... - Nefertari--
The Pharaoh makes all decisions here.
With the advice of the High Priest!
- Enough! Be quiet. - [baby crying]
[sighs]
Ramses, perhaps we should go somewhere and talk.
- Just the two of us. - That's a good idea.
And I know just the place.
My wife can be a bit forceful sometimes.
Yes. Your wife.
We have so much to talk about.
We do.
[laughing]
- You have a son now. - Yes, I do!
He's the happiest part of my life. But now...
Now, you've returned.
Oh, it's been so long
but I still remember every twist and turn inside the palace.
Ah. Except you're going the wrong way.
Oh, right.
Our secret room.
I remember the last time I was here.
We would hide here when we were in trouble.
But we didn't know what trouble really was.
In truth, we didn't have a care in the world.
Ramses, I have to tell you why I'm here.
Don't worry. If you want a royal pardon, I'm happy to--
No. It's about my people. The Hebrews.
- They're not your people. - My own brother and sister are slaves.
I'm your brother!
Ramses, I...
Have you ever really looked at the pictures on these walls?
What are you talking about?
Before I knew I was a Hebrew
I looked at those scenes of death as just a piece of pretty artwork.
I couldn't imagine anything so far from what I'd experienced.
Ramses, try to imagine...
that you weren't born at the top of the pyramid.
- Huh? - Try to imagine your life as a slave.
If you want your Hebrew brother and sister freed
I'll sign the decree today.
No, you know what I'm saying.
I want you to free all the Hebrews, and don't pretend to be naive.
And don't you pretend to be insane.
It's impossible, and you know it!
We've had slaves since the first Pharaohs.
You're Pharaoh!
You have the power to do whatever you want!
[laughing]
Is that what you think?
♪ When I was a boy
♪ I couldn't wait to be a man
♪ I thought that then I'd finally be free
♪ There'd be no more scolding voices
♪ I'd make my own choices
♪ I dreamt about how happy life would be
♪ When I grew up
♪ Then I grew up
♪ And now I sometimes have to laugh for all I'm worth
♪ I'm the least free man on Earth
♪ The least free man on Earth
- But you have the power. - No!
All the priests and the aristocrats would be against it.
I'd be alone against everyone.
Unless...
Unless what? What are you thinking?
I'm not thinking. I'm remembering.
♪ There was a time when every time I'd tumble down
♪ I'd have my brother
♪ My accomplice and my clown
♪ To pick me up Restore my purpose and my pride
♪ When you were always at my side
♪ At my side
♪ I'm stronger with you at my side
Be my adviser.
Return to being a prince of Egypt and help me.
How can I do that?
♪ You're saying every change I've made I must reverse
- Yes! - ♪ My wife would kill me
♪ Yes, and mine do even worse!
♪ But I'll only do it
♪ If you promise me that I'd...
♪ Have you back here and on my side
Do you mean it?
If I return to Egypt, you'll free the Hebrews?
Oh, I promise! If you promise to be...
♪ On my side
♪ Once more to have you on my side
- ♪ On my side - ♪ On your side
- ♪ I know you're always... - ♪...on your side
[laughing]
♪ So once again
♪ My brother has a second birth
- ♪ Now you can be - ♪ And I'll be even more
♪ The second least free man on Earth!
♪ Against all others
♪ You will keep me fortified
♪ To set my people free
♪ Well, if the price is me
- ♪ From now on I will be - ♪ From now on you will be
- ♪ Always on your side! - ♪ Always on my side!
Thank you, brother.
Hey, you won't be thanking me
after you've been in court for a while.
Now I have to think of how to tell my wife.
[chuckling]
Me too.
[tense music playing]
[Ramses] You were listening?
Is there no place where I'm alone?
Your Highness,
you are fortunate we were the only ones who witnessed this.
You cannot free those slaves.
I made a promise to my brother!
The Pharaoh does not make promises.
I don't understand. The Pharaoh of Egypt
wouldn't give the Hebrews their freedom without a heavy price.
Well, what does he get?
- Well, we made a deal. - What deal?
- Now don't get angry before I explain. - What deal?
He said he would free the Hebrews if I stay...
If I stayed in Egypt and returned to court.
- You did not agree to that! - It was the only way
I could get Ramses to make a promise.
What about your promise to me?
You said we would return to Midian after this was over.
You said you're happy there.
Of course I'm happy.
Well, are you going to be happy without me?
Well, of course I was expecting you...
Hoping that you'd stay with me.
Tzipporah, think of what we've done.
Ramses just gave the Hebrews their freedom!
- By taking ours away! - Moses!
Is this a vision, or are you real?
Miriam?
You came back to us!
[gasps, laughs]
[laughs]
You see, Aaron, after all these years
when everyone else had given up hope.
You told me my visions were crazy
but Moses has returned to us.
Exactly! What could be crazier than coming back here?
This is Tzipporah, my wife.
Your wife? [exhales]
- And now my sister. - You shouldn't be here!
- Aaron! - He's a wanted fugitive.
Moses, the guards would seize you the moment you set foot near the palace.
No, Aaron. I've seen the Pharaoh.
The Pharaoh has granted my plea and freed you all!
What?
You are free men and women from now on!
- Impossible! - It can't be true!
Why should we believe you?
I told you, God has sent Moses back to deliver us.
The royal decree will arrive soon, and then it will be official.
♪ That day has come
♪ You thought would never come
♪ The day you break your chains
♪ The thrill of freedom coursing through your veins
♪ I know it's hard to believe
♪ But I swear it's true
♪ Now there's only one thing
♪ That we can do
♪ Simcha! Chagigah!
♪ Sing a song of exultation
♪ Simcha! Chagigah!
♪ Let us make a joyful noise
♪ Let the caged bird fly To the open sky
♪ With a cry of liberation
♪ Let's begin the celebration
♪ Simcha! Chagigah!
- ♪ Simcha! Simcha! - Don't you understand?
- You are slaves no more! - ♪ Simcha! Chagigah!
♪ Simcha! Chagigah!
♪ Sing a song of exultation
♪ Simcha! Chagigah!
♪ Let us make a joyful noise
♪ Let the caged bird fly to the open sky
♪ With a raucous cry of liberation
♪ Now we celebrate in jubilation
♪ Simcha! Chagigah!
♪ Hey! Hey!
[joyful yelling]
♪ Simcha! Chagigah!
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
[woman laughing]
♪ Let the caged bird fly to the open sky
♪ With a cry of liberation
♪ Simcha! Chagigah!
♪ Simcha!
♪ Hebrews!
♪ Hear this message from your pharaoh
♪ Hear and obey
♪ "Now from this day The Hebrews will no longer be supplied with straw for bricks
♪ But they are still required
♪ To make the same number of bricks
- ♪ As before" - No!
- I don't understand. - Oh, I do!
You've stirred up trouble where there was none.
You! You doubled our work load.
No, this can't be!
- The Pharaoh assured me-- - The decree...
bears the royal seal.
[gasps]
- Liar! - You lied to us, Moses!
Worse! You gave us hope!
Get back to work, slaves.
[whip cracks]
That hope was crueler than anything that the Egyptians ever did to us.
♪ Thanks to you What was hard becomes harder
♪ Thanks to you What was bad becomes worse
♪ Please don't help us again
♪ Please go back to Midian
♪ With our curse
♪ Please have mercy
♪ Deliver us!
- ♪ Go away! - ♪ Deliver us!
♪ This time, stay!
♪ And take your empty words
♪ That won't come true
Look, there's your brother, the Pharaoh, floating down the Nile!
Go join your family on the royal barge!
- ♪ And deliver us - ♪ From you!
- Ramses! - [Tzipporah] Moses, no!
Ramses went back on his word. We are free to go!
No, I'm not.
They're my people and whether they choose
to accept me or not, I'm going to fight for them.
What don't you understand?
Fighting only makes matters worse.
Aaron! Moses will help us.
Don't stand in his way.
Ramses! Is it true? Have you gone back on your promise?
The Pharaoh of Egypt does not make promises.
You've broken your word. Why did you do this to me?
To you?
I'm not the one who ran away
leaving his father to die in mourning for a lost son.
I'm not the one who left his brother alone thinking you were dead.
I'm not the one who turned his back
on the family who rescued him from a life of squalor!
A family who loved him like one of their own.
♪ And once again You are the only one you see
♪ Here's the real question
♪ "Why did you do this to me?"
- Oh, this isn't about you, Ramses. - Everything is about me!
I am Pharaoh!
♪ Like Menkheperre Thutmose!
♪ Horemheb the Warrior!
♪ Menmaarte Seti!
Guards, seize him!
♪ Did you think I would not be as strong?
♪ Some weak link? Now you see you were wrong
- [Aaron] Moses, run! - No, Aaron!
- ♪ You were wrong - I warned you!
- ♪ You were--♪ - [thunder rumbles]
[wind whooshing]
- [Miriam] It's blood! - [chorus] Blood...
- The river is turning to blood! - ♪ Blood...
♪ The Nile has turned to blood!
How is this possible?
God has stretched out his hand and shown his power!
You have to believe me now.
God has sent Moses to deliver us.
High Priest, what is the meaning of this?
I can assure you our secret arts can do the same.
Observe. By the power of Ra...
turn this water to blood!
- You see, it was a mere trick. - No!
Ramses, there are things that are greater than we are.
Even greater than Pharaoh. I've come to understand that.
And you need to understand it too
or terrible things will happen to your people.
- To Egypt. - Plagues, darkness and fire...
You must stay strong, Your Majesty.
I promise you, whatever this imposter does
we can match it, and more!
♪ By the power of Mut
- ♪ Nut, Kh'num, P'tah - Sail back to the palace!
♪ Nephthys, Nekhbet, Sobek
♪ Sekhmet, Anubis, Anukis
- ♪ Rashpu, Wasjet, Sokar, Selket - ♪ Thus saith the Lord
- ♪ Seshmu, Meshkent - ♪ Thus saith the Lord
- ♪ Hemsut, Tefnut - ♪ Thus saith the Lord
- ♪ Heket, Mafdet, Ra! - Thus saith the Lord
♪ Thus saith the Lord Thus saith the Lord
♪ Thus saith the Lord, thus saith the Lord
- ♪ Thus saith the Lord - [rumbles]
♪ I send a pestilence and plague
♪ Into your house, into your bed
♪ Into your streams, into your streets
♪ Into your drink, into your bread
♪ Upon your cattle, on your sheep
♪ Upon your oxen in your field
♪ Into your dreams, into your sleep
♪ Until you break, until you yield
♪ I send the swarm, I send the horde
♪ Thus saith the Lord
♪ No power on Earth
- ♪ Can match this might - ♪ I will send thunder from the sky
♪ I will send fire raining down
♪ No power on Earth
- ♪ Can stand against such force - ♪ I will send hail of burning ice
♪ On every field, on every town
♪ Ramses, you betrayed our bargain
♪It's you who chose this course
♪ I will send locusts on a wind
♪ Such as the world has never seen
♪ On every stalk, on every leaf
♪ Until there's nothing left of green
♪ I send my scourge, I send my sword
♪ Thus saith the Lord!
Moses! You came!
Of course I will come if my mother summons me.
I knew the gods would bring you back.
Mother, I have missed you.
Then why are you doing this?
People are sick and starving and they tell me you are responsible.
But, no. If only Ramses had kept his promise...
- Now I have no choice. - Of course you do.
Promise me you will make peace with your brother.
- Promise me. - Mother, uh...
♪ I gave you a home, my son
♪ Not just me, so many
♪ Our love for you was strong
♪ And now you've come home
♪ But to those who loved you
♪ You do us all such wrong
♪ And it breaks my heart to ask you
♪ Did you hate us all along?
♪ I send the punishment of plagues
♪ I send it down upon your head
♪ Into your streams into your streets Into your drink, into your bread
♪ Upon your cattle, on your sheep
♪ Upon your oxen in your field
♪ Into your dreams, into your sleep
♪ Until you break, until you yield
♪ I send my scourge, I send my sword
♪ Thus saith the Lord
Ramses, talk to me! We could always talk here.
End this now before something more terrible happens.
- Free the Hebrews. - I can't! You know I can't!
Why do you keep asking me for something I can't give you?
♪ No power on Earth
♪ Sometimes I feel I have no power on Earth
♪ You can make it right
♪ You're the one who can fix this
♪ All you have to do is give the order
♪ Set the Hebrews free
- You think it's that simple? - It is simple.
It's not easy, but it is simple.
- You have the choice. - I have a...
[music intensifies]
Ramses, let my people go.
You will not give me orders!
You will not threaten me!
- Think of your son. - I am Pharaoh.
Egypt is my firstborn and my lastborn.
I have to think of Egypt before all else.
You Hebrews have been nothing but trouble!
Father had the right idea about you.
♪ I'll send the swarm I'll send the horde
♪ I'll send my scourge I'll send my sword
- ♪ No power on Earth - ♪ You can make it right
- ♪ Can change my mind - ♪ Only you can fix this
♪ I send my fire raining down Such as the world has never seen
- ♪ No power on Earth - ♪ Brother, take the chance
♪ While you still have it
♪ Now before the horrors grow
♪ On every stalk, on every leaf Until there's nothing left of green
- ♪ Now finally my heart is hardened - ♪ You can't win this fight
♪ Now this I finally know
♪ One last time, I beg you
- ♪ I will never let your people go - ♪ Let my people go
♪ Thus saith the Lord
♪ I will not...
- ♪ Let your people go! - ♪ Let my people go!
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
So much destruction.
So much misery
brought upon people who don't deserve it,
who had no part in any of this.
Why is this necessary? Is this the only way?
[chorus] ♪ Sometimes for the good of all
- ♪ Sacrifices must be made - No. No.
No, we can't be like that. We can't be like him.
I can't do this anymore!
Use your magic to free the Hebrews or change Pharaoh's heart!
But I will not be your messenger anymore!
- ♪ Moses... - No.
- ♪ Moses... - No, I can't. I won't.
♪ One more time you must go forth
♪ One more time before it's done
[Moses] Choose someone else!
♪ Once more I send forth my messenger
♪ Now you must go to your people
♪ Make them hear, heed your call
♪ Through the darkest night of all
And then?
♪ They will be free
Take a lamb
and mark the lintel and posts of every door with its blood.
- For tonight... - [chorus echoing]
I shall pass through the land of Egypt
and smite all the firstborn.
But when I see the blood upon your door,
I will pass over you
and the plague shall not enter.
[suspenseful music playing]
[music intensifies]
[loud exhale]
[silence]
[mournful music playing]
["For the Rest of My Life" playing]
♪ For the rest of my life
♪ I will have to live with this
♪ For the rest of my life
♪ I'll have to face the part I played
♪ These faces filled with grief
♪ And with despair
♪ Every morning when I wake up
♪ They'll be there
♪ Seared into my memory
♪ With a cruel burning knife
♪ For the rest of my life
♪ Oh...
♪ There's a weight on my soul
♪ Like a pyramid of stone
♪ There's a weight on my soul
♪ A ransom never to be paid
♪ The crimes I do I do them in your name
♪ But I feel just as guilty all the same
♪ Like a brutal soldier who does anything he's told
♪ There's a weight on my soul
♪ For the rest of my life
♪ When you know you're in the right
♪ It's so easy to do wrong
♪ You have to win the fight
♪ So you close your mind and heart up tight
♪ And go along
♪ Tell yourself you're staying strong
♪ You ramp up your ferocity
♪ Excuse any atrocity
♪ But once you've won
♪ You have to live with what you've done
♪ And for the rest of my life
♪ I will have to live with this
♪ For the rest of my life
♪ These questions haunting me like ghosts
♪ Does a noble end mean any means will do?
♪ Is your power the only reason to follow you?
♪ And one final question I see no answer to
♪ For the rest of my life
♪ How will I get through?
♪ Unlike so many of our victims
♪ I have the rest of my life
♪ To get through!
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
[sad music playing]
My little boy.
He was born a living god.
How can he be dead?
Ramses...
Your people can go.
- Ramses, I... - Go!
Leave our son to the embalmer.
We need to go to the people.
I can't.
We have to reassure them that Pharaoh is still all-powerful.
That no one can tear down the pyramids of Egypt.
♪ All our pyramids and palaces
♪ Our obelisks and statues
♪ Before my eyes
♪ They crumble into sand
♪ Beneath the weight
♪ Of your tiny silent body
♪ Our fortresses are fallen
♪ And we stand
♪ On a barren wind-swept land
♪ Heartless
♪ I know people call me heartless
♪ Heartless
♪ Oh, if only it were true
♪ I wouldn't feel this unbearable ache
♪ The stab when I felt my heart breaking
♪ Shattered into shards
♪ By the loss of you
♪ Heartless
♪ How I wish I could be heartless
♪ But I can't be
♪ Someone else is grieving too
♪ Like mine
♪ His pain will last forever
♪ Like rain that never ceases to pour
♪ So I can't be heartless
♪ For him, I can't be
♪ Heartless
♪ For him, I never
♪ Have needed heart more
♪ I never
♪ Have needed heart more
Moses! Is it true? The word is all over Goshen--
- Miriam! Stop! Just wait. - But if it's true, I--
Moses...
Tell Miriam the Hebrews can go.
But you have to lead them.
No.
Let them go. I did what He wanted.
It's done and...
I'm done.
Moses, you made a choice.
An impossible choice.
I don't know.
No one can ever know what it has cost you.
But there's one thing you must not forget.
One thing is true today
that wasn't true yesterday.
Your people are free.
♪ Many nights we've prayed
♪ With no proof anyone could hear
♪ In our hearts a hopeful song
♪ We barely understood
♪ Now we are not afraid
♪ Although we know there's much to fear
♪ We were moving mountains
♪ Long before we knew we could
♪ There can be miracles
♪ When you believe
♪ Though hope is frail
♪ It's hard to kill
♪ Who knows what miracles
♪ You can achieve
♪ When you believe
♪ Somehow you will
♪ You will when you believe
♪ In this time of fear
♪ When prayer so often proved in vain
♪ Hope seemed like the summer birds
♪ Too swiftly flown away
- ♪ Now I'm standing here - ♪ Now I'm standing here
♪ With heart so full I can't explain
♪ Seeking faith and speaking words
♪ I never thought I'd say
♪ There can be miracles
- ♪ When you believe - ♪ When you believe
♪ Though hope is frail
♪ It's hard to kill
♪ Who knows what miracles
- ♪ You can achieve - ♪ You can achieve
♪ When you believe
♪ Somehow you will
♪ You will when you believe
♪ A-Shi-Ra L'a-Don-Ai Ki Ga-Oh Ga-Ah
♪ Mi-Cha-Mo-Cha Ba-Elim Adonai
♪ Mi-Ka Mo-Cha Ne-Dar Ba-Ko-Desh
♪ Na-Chi-Tah V'-Chas-D'-Cha Am Zu Ga-Al-Ta
♪ A-Shi-Ra, A-Shi-Ra, A-Shira...
♪ A-Shi-Ra L'a-Don-Ai Ki Ga-Oh Ga-Ah
♪ Mi-Cha-Mo-Cha Ba-Elim Adonai
♪ Mi-Ka Mo-Cha Ne-Dar Ba-Ko-Desh
♪ Na-Chi-Tah V'-Chas-D'-Cha Am Zu Ga-Al-Ta
♪ A-Shi-Ra, A-Shi-Ra, A-Shira...
♪ There can be miracles
♪ When you believe
♪ Though hope is frail
♪ It's hard to kill
♪ Who knows what miracles
♪ You can achieve
♪ When you believe
♪ Somehow you will
♪ Now you will
♪ You will when you believe
♪ You will when you...
♪ Believe!
[chorus vocalizing]
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
How could you let them go?
Do you love your brother more than Egypt?
Don't forget to whom you are speaking!
I am Pharaoh, Lord of the Two Kingdoms.
And you should not forget the fate of those Pharaohs
that went against the will of the gods!
Dynasties come and go, but the power of the High Priest
that is forever.
Remember your father. He understood this.
I do almost nothing else these days but to remember my father.
You should remember your firstborn also.
And the firstborn of all your people.
Their blood cries out for vengeance.
Vengeance...
There are many in your army who feel as I do
who do not wish to see Egypt humbled and humiliated.
If you do not pursue the Hebrews
I'm sure your soldiers will follow me.
Assemble the soldiers.
I'll lead them into the desert after Moses.
Pharaoh has spoken.
[waves lapping]
Moses.
Can you forgive me? I doubted you.
No more than I doubted myself.
It's good to have people close to you who will question your decisions.
We've made it to the border of Egypt, but...
but the Red Sea stands in our way.
How are we going to cross it without ships?
I didn't mean question my decisions right now.
Well, there's driftwood on shore.
And there must be boat builders among you.
Among us.
Go and see if anyone can fashion rafts to ferry everyone across.
What do you see out there?
It's what I don't see.
I'm never going to see my father again.
And my sisters.
My people.
Now I'm the stranger in a strange land.
This was never your fight.
I have no right to ask you to cross a sea
and give up a life that we promised each other.
To give up your freedom.
♪ A-ni chof-she
♪ E'-heh-yeh chof-she...
♪ It's true, I will never now be free
I understand if you turn back.
♪ Can I actually imagine, in a moment's doubt
♪ That I could take my life back and just turn about?
♪ But though we know full well
♪ This choice is not without its tears
♪ Never in a million years, my love
♪ Never in a million years
- [fanfare playing] - What's that?
It's the Egyptian army! Ramses has led them after us!
Ramses betrayed us! It was a trap.
- What are you going to do, Moses? - I don't know.
There's no way out!
♪ Many nights we've prayed
♪ With no proof anyone could hear
♪ All at once, an answer came
♪ In ways we never planned
♪ So we are not afraid
♪ For we've seen miracles appear
♪ Is there one more miracle
♪ If I stretch forth my hand?
- Nothing's happening! - We're lost!
They're getting closer!
♪ Deliver us
♪ Now you will deliver us
♪ And until the end of history
♪ Will this day be sung
[vocalizing]
[vocalizing continues]
[grunting]
Aaron, Miriam, lead the Hebrews across to the other side.
I'll be the last through.
[triumphant music playing]
There's one final thing I must do in Egypt.
Perhaps you should go.
Where you go, I will go.
Do you call this another trick?
We can move faster than them, Your Highness!
We catch them in the sea before they reach the other side.
We will teach all slaves what they will suffer if they dare rebel.
- We will kill them all! - Ramses!
Starting with this one here.
Let me have the pleasure of killing him myself.
No! No, no.
- I'll deal with him. - Ramses, listen to me.
I can't run from what I did.
- God, I grieve for your son. - Don't you--
For all the sons of Egypt. And so I give myself to you.
You can kill me, keep me at court, whatever you wish.
But let the Hebrews pass through the sea to freedom.
Let me be the ransom for my people.
Your Highness, the Hebrews are getting away.
Order your soldiers to follow them into the sea!
[Seti singing] One weak link
♪ Can break the strongest chain
There's still time to catch them!
♪ One weak king
♪ Can end the longest reign
And we can kill every one of them.
♪ Are all my worst fears coming true?
Honor your father. Take your vengeance.
♪ That one weak link that one weak link
♪ That one weak link
- This is why you came here! - No!
I've come to end this.
There has been too much death.
A chain of death stretching back to my father and before.
I'm going to break the chain.
- I'm going to be the weak link. - Ramses
You think you can change everything
that's passed down to us through the centuries?
Not everything.
♪ There's a way of honoring the past
♪ Without being trapped by it
There will be a change at court when we return.
We'll have work to do
putting the priests back in their place
- but I will be at your side. - No.
No, your home is out there...
with your people.
This is the only gift I can give you now.
If Hotep is right, my power will soon be over.
Go.
♪ This is why you were born
♪ This is what you were made for
♪ This is who you both will be
♪ The rest of your long lives through
What is it? What is it?
My sister Miriam is the one with the gift of prophecy.
But in this moment, I feel like I can see.
Ramses, you will be a strong ruler.
You will expand the lands of Egypt farther than they have ever been.
You will build the greatest empire on Earth
without slaves.
You will be called Ramses the Great.
And we Hebrews will have our little kingdom by the sea.
♪ Now you know what you must be
♪ Now you know what you must do
- After the Hebrews! - No!
No! I order you to stop!
They're following me now!
♪ By the power of Mut
♪ Nut, Kh'num, P'tah
♪ Anubis, Anukis, Hemsut
♪ Tefnut, Meshkent, Mafdet Sobek, Sekhmet
♪ Sokar, Selket
♪ Ra!
[vocalizing]
[Hotep screaming]
[soldiers yelling]
[water bubbling]
[audience applauding]
♪ For the rest of my life
♪ I don't know what is to come
♪ For the rest of my life
♪ No ancient laws to show the way
[both] But as each day I search for what to do
♪ I'll know there is a brother
♪ Who is searching too
♪ I'll know there is a brother out there
♪ Who can understand
♪ Footprints on the sand
♪ One day we will vanish
♪ Like footprints on the sand
♪ Like echoes of a fading chime
♪ Our bodies will be gone
♪ But deeds can live on
♪ For we can be both merely
♪ Human and sublime
♪ Both footprints on the sand
♪ And footprints on the sands
♪ Of time!
[chorus] Who knows what miracles
♪ You can achieve
♪ When you believe
- ♪ Somehow you will - ♪ Footprints on the sand
♪ Now you will
♪ Footprints on the sand
♪ You will when you believe
♪ When you believe
♪ You will when you believe!
- [song ends] - [audience cheering]
[cheering continues]
[upbeat music playing]
[cheering continues]
[music continues]
- [music ends] - [audience cheering]
[triumphant music playing]
[music continues]
Subtitles: PLINT.COM Translated by: Jerrold Cameron