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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.
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The tax collectors use them.
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Did you learn them in Egypt?
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For record-keeping?
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And to tell stories with.
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[Zipporah] Mm.
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And what story do these tell?
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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.
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[tender music playing]
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Beside the majesty of thy dwelling place,
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our lives are as nothing.
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As fragile and rare
as this piece of glass.
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May the union of thy servants…
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[voice breaking] …be good in thy sight.
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And bountiful.
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[women ululating]
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[music intensifies]
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[Kirsch] It's intriguing to ponder
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that Moses was in touch with
many different cultures and traditions.
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He was a prince of Egypt.
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He was the son-in-law
of the high priest of Midian.
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He was the liberator of the Israelites.
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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.
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[sighs]
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[grunts]
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[narrator] Moses and Zipporah
start a family in Midian
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and have two sons.
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Gershom and Eliezer.
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[baby fussing]
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[Rachel Adelman] The firstborn,
his naming is really important.
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So Moses calls him Gershom…
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[speaking Hebrew]
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[in English] "For I was a stranger
in a strange land."
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It speaks to Moses' sense
of not belonging, right?
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Not belonging to Midian.
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Not belonging in Egypt.
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[baby crying]
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[dramatic music playing]
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[narrator] In the years that follow,
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the old Egyptian king dies
and Moses' uncle takes the throne.
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He is Pharaoh,
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the most powerful ruler of the age.
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[Nick Brown] If we had to equate
the Pharaoh in the story of the Exodus
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with a pharaoh that we know
from Egyptian history,
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it could possibly be Ramesses the Great
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because the story of the Exodus
talks about how the Israelites
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were forced into labor
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and were forced to build
these two great cities.
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One of which was Pi-Ramesses,
or the House of Ramesses,
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which was Ramesses the Great's
capital city in the Delta
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during the Nineteenth Dynasty.
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[singing]
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[Monica Hanna] When he comes to power,
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he leads several campaigns
to the area of Syria Palestine.
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He conquers areas
even as far as, uh, Beirut in Lebanon.
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The reign of Ramesses the Great
was one of the most influential
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and one of the most powerful,
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and really was the peak
of Egyptian empire.
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How are the auguries?
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There are always unruly ones, Majesty.
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Where exactly?
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In the desert, Majesty.
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Scrub dwellers late with their tribute.
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Inconsequential.
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Even a beggar may be enlightened.
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True, my lord.
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[Pharaoh] The spell, sorcerer.
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Let them feel our displeasure.
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So they may come to us
in supplication and humility.
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It will be done, Majesty.
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[Nasser] He is harsh towards anyone
who is trying to threaten his kingdom.
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He was merciless, he's brute,
he is killing people.
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He only cares about his, uh…
Maintaining his wealth, his power.
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If you want to describe someone
as a tyrant in Arabic, you would say…
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[speaking Arabic]
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[in English] Is to behave like Pharaoh,
or to become like a pharaoh.
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So it really became, uh, synonymous,
this word, with-- with Pharaoh's actions.
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[narrator] The new pharaoh
has many enemies outside his kingdom.
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But the biggest threat to his rule
is his nephew,
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now a humble shepherd in Midian.
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Gershom!
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What have I told you?
Eyes on the flock at all times.
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Yes, Father.
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What were you looking at?
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Three riders on the plain
heading for our village.
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-Ishmaelites coming to make trouble.
-No.
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They were white horses.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Jethro] This is
a most unexpected pleasure.
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Enjoy the comforts of our home.
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[man] Thank you.
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[Jethro] My foreman.
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Ambassadors from Egypt.
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Kneel before His Majesty's emissaries!
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Kneel!
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00:30:10,955 --> 00:30:13,541
Apologies. He's foreign-born.
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00:30:14,918 --> 00:30:16,419
You must inform him.
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00:30:18,463 --> 00:30:20,798
The old pharaoh has joined the gods.
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His firstborn is the new pharaoh.
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[tense music playing]
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00:30:28,723 --> 00:30:31,601
All the desert tribes must send tribute.
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00:30:34,103 --> 00:30:37,023
Um… we are blessed and honored,
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00:30:38,066 --> 00:30:39,525
but we are also poor.
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00:30:44,614 --> 00:30:45,949
We saw your flock.
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It's quite healthy and bountiful.
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Please. Rest after your journey.
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We must continue our mission.
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00:30:59,796 --> 00:31:01,005
But we will return.
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00:31:11,224 --> 00:31:13,476
How do we pay when we are already in debt?
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00:31:13,559 --> 00:31:15,478
We stall, negotiate, as always.
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00:31:15,561 --> 00:31:16,896
Not with this pharaoh.
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You know him?
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[voice echoing] Murderer.
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[foreboding music playing]
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00:31:52,849 --> 00:31:53,725
Leave me.
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Leave me alone!
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00:32:10,533 --> 00:32:12,535
[ethereal music playing]
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00:32:29,469 --> 00:32:31,012
[whip cracking]
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[younger Moses] Stop! You! Stop!
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[Zipporah] Moses! Moses!
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[panting]
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You have been up here for days.
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00:32:53,201 --> 00:32:54,202
Come down now.
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00:32:56,329 --> 00:32:57,747
This is where I belong.
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00:33:01,667 --> 00:33:04,670
You have… two sons now.
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And a wife.
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00:33:06,839 --> 00:33:08,382
I do not deserve them.
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00:33:08,966 --> 00:33:10,885
And how does that help us?
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00:33:12,970 --> 00:33:14,972
[somber music playing]
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[Yahweh] Show them the way.
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00:33:30,029 --> 00:33:31,864
Show them the way.
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00:34:20,830 --> 00:34:22,832
There are things about me you must know.
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00:34:28,754 --> 00:34:31,966
I was brought up as a prince
of the royal household.
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00:34:35,386 --> 00:34:36,387
[Zipporah] A prince?
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00:34:41,767 --> 00:34:43,311
Why didn't you tell us?
403
00:34:43,394 --> 00:34:45,980
Egyptian royals
are not liked by desert people.
404
00:34:47,398 --> 00:34:49,025
All this time you kept it hidden?
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00:34:49,108 --> 00:34:51,777
If your father had known,
he would not let me stay.
406
00:34:59,327 --> 00:35:00,244
I killed a man.
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00:35:03,831 --> 00:35:04,790
A taskmaster.
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00:35:08,336 --> 00:35:10,213
And this is why you left Egypt?
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00:35:15,301 --> 00:35:17,011
They would have punished you.
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00:35:17,595 --> 00:35:18,888
More than that.
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00:35:18,971 --> 00:35:21,390
They would have known
what I always suspected.
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00:35:22,391 --> 00:35:27,313
That I was not really one of them
any more than I'm one of you.
413
00:35:28,564 --> 00:35:30,483
-Then who are you?
-I don't know.
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00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:33,527
I need to find out.
415
00:35:35,821 --> 00:35:37,573
There is a sign on the mountain again.
416
00:35:38,074 --> 00:35:39,283
I must go there.
417
00:35:42,370 --> 00:35:44,080
No one has ever been.
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00:35:45,164 --> 00:35:46,707
You might not come back.
419
00:35:47,208 --> 00:35:49,210
[somber music rising]
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00:36:12,358 --> 00:36:13,943
I love you more than life.
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00:36:17,780 --> 00:36:19,782
[expectant music playing]
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00:36:42,930 --> 00:36:46,017
[Lewter] I think
God calls us in a variety of ways.
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00:36:47,435 --> 00:36:51,105
Sometimes our call
is the result of struggle.
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00:36:51,188 --> 00:36:54,942
But sometimes our call is a rejection
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00:36:55,026 --> 00:36:59,071
of the comfort and the convenience
we have so come to enjoy.
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00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:03,576
And I think that's what Moses represents.
427
00:37:11,792 --> 00:37:14,920
Moses was deeply flawed
and extraordinarily resilient.
428
00:37:16,047 --> 00:37:18,341
He was conflicted about his identity.
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00:37:19,175 --> 00:37:21,010
He was an adopted child.
430
00:37:21,552 --> 00:37:24,388
He was a person with a criminal record.
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00:37:25,056 --> 00:37:28,559
He was homeless for part of his life.
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00:37:28,642 --> 00:37:33,814
And his failures teach us
as much as his achievements.
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00:37:35,274 --> 00:37:38,069
[Kang] God calls who he wants to call.
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00:37:38,152 --> 00:37:40,696
In fact, I can't think
of a-- a single person
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00:37:40,780 --> 00:37:42,448
in the Bible outside of Jesus
436
00:37:43,032 --> 00:37:48,579
that doesn't have
a glaring character flaw or impediment
437
00:37:48,662 --> 00:37:52,375
in some way, shape or form
that is like, "Really?"
438
00:37:52,875 --> 00:37:54,835
But God just specializes in that.
439
00:37:54,919 --> 00:37:58,255
The God of scripture
is a god who specializes
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00:37:58,339 --> 00:38:03,344
in taking broken things
and not just fixing them,
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00:38:03,427 --> 00:38:06,389
but repurposing them
for something even greater.
442
00:38:06,472 --> 00:38:08,474
[expectant music continues]
443
00:38:16,524 --> 00:38:18,275
[thunder crashing]
444
00:38:22,738 --> 00:38:24,740
[dramatic music playing]
445
00:39:28,387 --> 00:39:30,389
[solemn music playing]
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00:40:25,110 --> 00:40:26,695
[Yahweh] Take off your shoes.
447
00:40:29,156 --> 00:40:30,115
Who are you?
448
00:40:31,659 --> 00:40:33,619
This is holy ground, Moses.
449
00:40:34,411 --> 00:40:35,871
Take off your shoes.
450
00:40:38,999 --> 00:40:41,460
-Tell me, what do you want from me?
-Do as I say.
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00:40:47,216 --> 00:40:50,511
I am what I am and what I will be.
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00:40:51,679 --> 00:40:54,890
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
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00:40:56,016 --> 00:40:57,643
The God of the Israelites.
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00:40:58,227 --> 00:40:59,979
The God of everything.
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00:41:02,106 --> 00:41:05,025
And you are what you are
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00:41:05,109 --> 00:41:06,735
and what you will be…
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00:41:08,237 --> 00:41:09,905
my messenger.
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00:41:11,323 --> 00:41:14,660
The Hebrew Bible makes a fundamental point
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00:41:15,286 --> 00:41:18,914
that human beings cannot see God.
460
00:41:18,998 --> 00:41:21,709
They cannot be
in the physical presence of God.
461
00:41:22,376 --> 00:41:24,086
There is one great exception.
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00:41:24,169 --> 00:41:25,921
The exception is Moses.
463
00:41:27,506 --> 00:41:28,966
You are truly God?
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00:41:29,049 --> 00:41:32,428
I am what I am and what I will be.
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00:41:33,137 --> 00:41:36,056
[Enns] You have a bush that is burning,
but not consumed.
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00:41:36,140 --> 00:41:40,144
A Jewish philosopher named Philo
who lived around the time of Christ
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00:41:40,227 --> 00:41:41,645
reads this allegorically.
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00:41:41,729 --> 00:41:45,608
He says it's symbolic
of Israel's enslavement,
469
00:41:45,691 --> 00:41:47,943
which is, they're burned
but they're not consumed.
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00:41:48,027 --> 00:41:49,445
They're still surviving.
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00:41:49,987 --> 00:41:52,406
[Yahweh] I have watched you
for years, Moses.
472
00:41:53,115 --> 00:41:55,659
Seeking. Questioning.
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00:41:56,160 --> 00:41:59,830
And I have brought you here
to reveal your purpose.
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00:42:00,831 --> 00:42:02,541
You will return to Egypt.
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00:42:03,250 --> 00:42:05,919
You will persuade the Hebrews
to follow you.
476
00:42:06,754 --> 00:42:11,258
And in my name, you will demand
their freedom from Pharaoh.
477
00:42:12,635 --> 00:42:14,470
Pharaoh will never free the Hebrews.
478
00:42:15,012 --> 00:42:16,472
He will resist.
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00:42:16,555 --> 00:42:18,932
And I will smite him for it.
480
00:42:20,476 --> 00:42:22,269
What have I to do with the Hebrews?
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00:42:23,437 --> 00:42:26,815
I am not a leader or man of words.
482
00:42:27,775 --> 00:42:29,902
Until you find your way,
483
00:42:29,985 --> 00:42:33,072
your brother, Aaron, will speak for you.
484
00:42:33,155 --> 00:42:35,282
[uplifting music playing]
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00:42:35,366 --> 00:42:36,283
My brother?
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00:42:38,118 --> 00:42:39,286
Go to Egypt.
487
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,956
Announce yourself
to the Hebrews as my messenger.
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00:42:43,707 --> 00:42:45,834
I will tell you my name.
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00:42:46,585 --> 00:42:48,295
The name I am known by.
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00:42:49,129 --> 00:42:52,049
And they will know that you speak for me.
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00:42:53,592 --> 00:42:55,469
[in Hebrew] I am that I am.
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00:42:56,762 --> 00:42:59,890
[in English] Moses doesn't know
that he's gonna be convincing.
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00:42:59,973 --> 00:43:04,144
And God says, "Okay, don't worry.
I'll tell you my name."
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00:43:04,770 --> 00:43:05,604
"It's…"
495
00:43:05,688 --> 00:43:07,106
[speaking Hebrew]
496
00:43:07,189 --> 00:43:09,274
[in English] "I will be that I will be,"
497
00:43:09,358 --> 00:43:11,443
or "I will become that I will become."
498
00:43:12,027 --> 00:43:13,445
What kind of name is that?
499
00:43:13,529 --> 00:43:15,698
It's a name that's a verb.
500
00:43:16,407 --> 00:43:18,033
God is a verb.
501
00:43:19,535 --> 00:43:21,870
I am not meant for this task.
502
00:43:23,497 --> 00:43:25,124
I'm not even a good man.
503
00:43:25,958 --> 00:43:28,043
I have chosen you.
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00:43:28,961 --> 00:43:30,045
Moses.
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00:43:40,639 --> 00:43:42,683
[Moses] Zipporah! Zipporah, we must go!
506
00:43:44,768 --> 00:43:45,602
[Zipporah] Oh!
507
00:43:47,563 --> 00:43:48,939
I have seen God.
508
00:43:49,022 --> 00:43:51,525
God? Which God?
509
00:43:51,608 --> 00:43:54,069
The God of the Hebrews.
The God of everything.
510
00:43:54,778 --> 00:43:55,988
He has a task for me.
511
00:43:58,115 --> 00:44:00,784
Pack clothes for you and the children.
We leave at once.
512
00:44:00,868 --> 00:44:02,870
[electrifying music playing]
513
00:44:05,956 --> 00:44:08,500
[narrator] "The Lord had said to Moses
in Midian,
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00:44:08,584 --> 00:44:10,294
'Go back to Egypt,
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00:44:10,377 --> 00:44:13,589
for all those who wanted
to kill you are dead.'"
516
00:44:26,310 --> 00:44:28,812
"So Moses took his wife and sons,
517
00:44:28,896 --> 00:44:32,775
put them on a donkey,
and started back to Egypt."
518
00:44:34,359 --> 00:44:36,361
[wind blowing wildly]
519
00:44:43,327 --> 00:44:44,536
[Zipporah] We are lost!
520
00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:46,789
[Moses] God is showing us the way.
521
00:44:59,176 --> 00:45:00,803
Just three weeks to Goshen.
522
00:45:02,304 --> 00:45:03,347
And then what?
523
00:45:04,056 --> 00:45:06,058
We stop at the village. There is an inn.
524
00:45:06,141 --> 00:45:08,477
There, we will meet my brother, Aaron.
525
00:45:09,186 --> 00:45:12,731
The brother this God told you of?
Who you don't even know exists?
526
00:45:13,315 --> 00:45:15,108
It's God's word. I believe it.
527
00:45:16,068 --> 00:45:18,070
-If there is no brother…
-There will be.
528
00:45:18,153 --> 00:45:20,364
…when we reach Goshen, can we return home?
529
00:45:20,447 --> 00:45:22,908
-There will be a brother.
-But if there isn't.
530
00:45:22,991 --> 00:45:24,827
There will be a brother!
531
00:45:24,910 --> 00:45:26,912
But if there isn't!
532
00:45:30,082 --> 00:45:31,708
[sighs] Bring me the meat.
533
00:45:33,794 --> 00:45:35,921
I do not believe in this God.
534
00:45:36,505 --> 00:45:39,258
-The Hebrews are suffering.
-I believe in our family.
535
00:45:39,341 --> 00:45:40,509
Then I am your husband!
536
00:45:44,429 --> 00:45:46,932
Perhaps with you beside me,
I can deliver them.
537
00:46:02,739 --> 00:46:04,700
[narrator] Moses heeds God's instructions
538
00:46:06,118 --> 00:46:10,873
and journeys across the desert
to meet his brother, Aaron.
539
00:46:20,048 --> 00:46:22,050
[mellow music playing]
540
00:46:25,345 --> 00:46:27,639
How will you recognize your brother?
541
00:46:30,183 --> 00:46:31,018
Him?
542
00:46:55,626 --> 00:46:56,460
Sit.
543
00:46:56,543 --> 00:46:58,378
[somber music playing]
544
00:47:01,590 --> 00:47:02,466
Quickly.
545
00:47:04,217 --> 00:47:05,093
And you.
546
00:47:16,980 --> 00:47:19,524
A voice spoke to me in a dream
547
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,235
that said if I came here,
548
00:47:22,986 --> 00:47:24,071
I would meet you.
549
00:47:25,989 --> 00:47:27,366
How do you know who I am?
550
00:47:28,784 --> 00:47:30,243
I've known you all your life.
551
00:47:32,079 --> 00:47:33,914
I am Aaron, son of Amram.
552
00:47:35,916 --> 00:47:36,750
A Hebrew.
553
00:47:38,418 --> 00:47:39,628
Your older brother.
554
00:47:44,257 --> 00:47:45,175
I'm a Hebrew?
555
00:47:48,720 --> 00:47:52,516
It is a strange and wonderful story.
556
00:47:53,308 --> 00:47:54,810
[dramatic music playing]
557
00:47:55,602 --> 00:47:57,145
When I was a young boy,
558
00:47:58,313 --> 00:48:01,692
Pharaoh feared the Hebrews
were growing too numerous
559
00:48:02,275 --> 00:48:04,403
and would one day take over his kingdom.
560
00:48:05,821 --> 00:48:09,700
He decreed that all new
Hebrew males be killed.
561
00:48:12,119 --> 00:48:14,830
You were not yet born
when the killing started.
562
00:48:20,002 --> 00:48:21,628
[Carol Meyers] Aside
from the tribal groups
563
00:48:21,712 --> 00:48:23,547
that you have
at the beginning of chapter one,
564
00:48:23,630 --> 00:48:27,759
the first two people named
in the Exodus story are Shiphrah and Puah.
565
00:48:27,843 --> 00:48:29,344
And they're midwives.
566
00:48:29,428 --> 00:48:31,638
And they do something remarkable.
567
00:48:31,722 --> 00:48:36,727
They defy the orders of the most
powerful person in their world,
568
00:48:36,810 --> 00:48:38,270
the Pharaoh of Egypt,
569
00:48:39,396 --> 00:48:42,274
because they refused
to carry out the pharaoh's orders.
570
00:48:43,066 --> 00:48:44,317
You could think of them
571
00:48:44,401 --> 00:48:47,362
as the first example
of civil disobedience.
572
00:48:47,446 --> 00:48:50,532
In Exodus they are described in Hebrew as…
573
00:48:50,615 --> 00:48:52,576
[speaking Hebrew]
574
00:48:52,659 --> 00:48:56,246
[in English] …which means
"the midwives to the Hebrews,"
575
00:48:56,329 --> 00:48:59,207
or it could mean "the Hebrew midwives."
576
00:48:59,291 --> 00:49:01,668
It's impossible to know, grammatically,
577
00:49:01,752 --> 00:49:03,086
which of those it means.
578
00:49:03,170 --> 00:49:06,631
These two women
who may not be Hebrew themselves,
579
00:49:06,715 --> 00:49:10,052
they're sticking their necks out
for Hebrews.
580
00:49:12,721 --> 00:49:15,640
They don't realize
what they're setting in motion.
581
00:49:15,724 --> 00:49:17,059
But we know.
582
00:49:17,684 --> 00:49:23,940
And one of the things I find
extremely moving is maybe, just maybe,
583
00:49:24,024 --> 00:49:28,570
human redemption gets started
on a grand scale
584
00:49:28,653 --> 00:49:32,157
when people bravely stand up
585
00:49:32,657 --> 00:49:35,786
to do something for somebody else.
586
00:49:38,038 --> 00:49:40,415
[Aaron] Our mother, Jochebed,
587
00:49:41,208 --> 00:49:43,085
gave birth to you in secret.
588
00:49:43,168 --> 00:49:44,336
[baby crying]
589
00:49:45,545 --> 00:49:49,508
According to the Midrash,
when she first gives birth,
590
00:49:50,092 --> 00:49:52,969
the whole room is filled with light.
591
00:49:55,305 --> 00:49:59,559
When she sees the child,
she sees that he is good.
592
00:49:59,643 --> 00:50:00,811
In Hebrew, it's…
593
00:50:00,894 --> 00:50:03,355
[speaking Hebrew]
594
00:50:03,438 --> 00:50:04,940
[in English] She sees that he is good.
595
00:50:05,023 --> 00:50:08,443
And we haven't heard that expression,
that it was good,
596
00:50:08,527 --> 00:50:11,696
since the first chapter in Genesis.
597
00:50:11,780 --> 00:50:16,118
Since the first seven days of creation.
598
00:50:18,995 --> 00:50:20,747
And she says, "He's special."
599
00:50:21,832 --> 00:50:25,043
"He needs to be hidden.
He needs to be saved."
600
00:50:25,127 --> 00:50:27,129
[dramatic music playing]
601
00:50:30,715 --> 00:50:33,677
[Aaron] With the Egyptian soldiers
going door-to-door in Goshen,
602
00:50:34,719 --> 00:50:36,721
we made a plan to keep you safe.
603
00:50:42,602 --> 00:50:44,563
[knocking on door]
604
00:50:44,646 --> 00:50:47,983
-[soldier] We know there's a baby here.
-They're coming. They're coming.
605
00:50:48,066 --> 00:50:50,944
[Jochebed] Aaron, go to the hiding place.
Go to the hiding place. Go!
606
00:50:52,279 --> 00:50:54,489
[Aaron] It was my job to look after you.
607
00:50:54,573 --> 00:50:56,074
Keep you hidden.
608
00:51:05,167 --> 00:51:06,209
I told you.
609
00:51:06,793 --> 00:51:08,211
The child was stillborn.
610
00:51:10,005 --> 00:51:11,339
Show us the body!
611
00:51:13,341 --> 00:51:15,010
He was buried yesterday.
612
00:51:15,886 --> 00:51:18,513
Must you trouble a mother in her grief?
613
00:51:19,681 --> 00:51:20,849
[baby fusses]
614
00:51:20,932 --> 00:51:22,434
Shh!
615
00:51:23,435 --> 00:51:25,270
Wait. Wait.
616
00:51:26,104 --> 00:51:28,106
[baby coos]
617
00:51:30,817 --> 00:51:31,651
Listen.
618
00:51:38,617 --> 00:51:42,662
[Aaron] I held you so tight,
worried that you would cry out.
619
00:51:43,371 --> 00:51:44,956
[tense music playing]
620
00:51:54,674 --> 00:51:55,842
We shall return.
621
00:51:57,302 --> 00:51:58,178
Let's go.
622
00:52:08,897 --> 00:52:12,442
No! No! No! No! No! No! No!
623
00:52:13,193 --> 00:52:14,444
Oh, no!
624
00:52:17,239 --> 00:52:18,198
No!
625
00:52:22,202 --> 00:52:24,204
[Jochebed crying]
626
00:52:29,542 --> 00:52:30,502
[fusses]
627
00:52:32,212 --> 00:52:34,256
[all sigh in relief]
628
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:40,762
[Jochebed soothing baby]
629
00:52:49,938 --> 00:52:50,981
[Aaron] You were safe.
630
00:52:51,690 --> 00:52:55,986
But we knew it was only a matter of time
before the Egyptian soldiers returned.
631
00:52:59,572 --> 00:53:03,868
[Harris] What's interesting to me is
that in those first couple of chapters
632
00:53:03,952 --> 00:53:05,370
of the book of Exodus,
633
00:53:05,453 --> 00:53:09,874
the text focuses so heavily on the wise,
634
00:53:09,958 --> 00:53:14,129
clever and brave acts of defiance
carried out by women,
635
00:53:15,755 --> 00:53:19,426
some of them Hebrews, some of them not,
636
00:53:20,093 --> 00:53:23,596
who all take these courageous risks
637
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:28,018
in defiance of the pharaoh's
laws and decrees.
638
00:53:33,356 --> 00:53:36,693
Moses' mother,
she makes the agonizing decision
639
00:53:36,776 --> 00:53:39,696
to put this baby in a basket,
640
00:53:40,488 --> 00:53:44,617
send it desperately off
along the waters of the Nile.
641
00:53:44,701 --> 00:53:46,661
What a desperate act.
642
00:53:46,745 --> 00:53:47,871
Oh, God.
643
00:53:49,164 --> 00:53:53,918
[Harris] God, I hope there's just somebody
somewhere who isn't horrible.
644
00:53:55,837 --> 00:53:58,590
And that if there is,
that they find this baby.
645
00:53:59,716 --> 00:54:01,051
That's just crushing.
646
00:54:02,469 --> 00:54:04,471
[solemn music playing]
647
00:54:10,060 --> 00:54:12,395
[Aaron] Our mother
cast you adrift in the Nile,
648
00:54:13,396 --> 00:54:16,232
not knowing what fate
had in store for you.
649
00:54:19,694 --> 00:54:22,655
[Adelman] They're able to hide him
for three months.
650
00:54:22,739 --> 00:54:26,868
And at the end of three months
they construct a little ark.
651
00:54:26,951 --> 00:54:31,748
It's called a tevah in Hebrew.
It's the same word for Noah's Ark.
652
00:54:33,041 --> 00:54:36,503
Noah's Ark is a tevah
likewise lined with pitch.
653
00:54:36,586 --> 00:54:38,046
So you have these two stories.
654
00:54:38,129 --> 00:54:40,256
One is in the early part of Genesis,
655
00:54:40,340 --> 00:54:45,136
and now we have the early part of Exodus
where something big's gonna happen,
656
00:54:45,220 --> 00:54:46,638
and it's because of the tevah.
657
00:54:51,226 --> 00:54:56,356
And a tevah is carrying someone
that's gonna represent a new beginning.
658
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:13,832
City of Pi-Ramesses.
659
00:55:15,667 --> 00:55:17,669
[tense music playing]
660
00:55:19,712 --> 00:55:20,797
[Moses] It has grown.
661
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:22,924
[Aaron] A monster.
662
00:55:23,466 --> 00:55:24,676
Fed on human blood.
663
00:55:25,635 --> 00:55:26,594
Ours.
664
00:55:39,941 --> 00:55:41,234
[Pharaoh] It will be glorious.
665
00:55:42,235 --> 00:55:43,945
[woman] You are too proud, brother.
666
00:55:45,655 --> 00:55:48,158
Our father built the Temple of Amun
667
00:55:48,658 --> 00:55:51,703
so that his name
would be remembered for eternity.
668
00:55:52,370 --> 00:55:57,000
Now, you remove the dedication
and replace it with yours?
669
00:55:58,376 --> 00:56:01,087
Father made the inscription
before the temple was complete.
670
00:56:02,755 --> 00:56:05,675
[woman] Our people remember Father fondly.
671
00:56:06,843 --> 00:56:08,052
[Pharaoh] Father was a tyrant.
672
00:56:08,636 --> 00:56:12,098
Hunting down Hebrew children
because he feared rebellion.
673
00:56:14,142 --> 00:56:18,480
Amen… what is the makeup of our workforce?
674
00:56:18,563 --> 00:56:20,773
One-fifth Egyptians, Sire.
675
00:56:21,274 --> 00:56:23,693
One-fifth prisoners of war.
676
00:56:23,776 --> 00:56:25,487
The rest, Hebrews.
677
00:56:25,570 --> 00:56:28,031
Energetic, skillful workers.
678
00:56:28,114 --> 00:56:32,452
And he wanted them pruned
because he was petrified of rebellion.
679
00:56:36,164 --> 00:56:37,957
I am made of different mettle.
680
00:56:38,917 --> 00:56:41,503
And as our city scales the heavens, yes,
681
00:56:43,338 --> 00:56:45,131
our Gods shall bask in glory.
682
00:56:46,549 --> 00:56:49,552
The notion of slaves in Egypt
did not exist.
683
00:56:50,345 --> 00:56:51,638
Get to work here!
684
00:56:51,721 --> 00:56:55,558
[Hanna] But we had prisoners of war.
Uh, we had servants.
685
00:56:55,642 --> 00:56:57,310
There was forced labor.
686
00:56:58,353 --> 00:57:01,397
This was business as usual
for Egyptian kings.
687
00:57:01,481 --> 00:57:03,483
[dramatic music playing]
688
00:57:11,783 --> 00:57:15,245
[Lewter] The slave labor of Egypt
689
00:57:15,745 --> 00:57:18,414
was critical to the economy of the same.
690
00:57:18,498 --> 00:57:21,751
And so you say, "Let my people go,"
691
00:57:21,834 --> 00:57:26,965
the natural question of Pharaoh
and the entire Egyptian economy is,
692
00:57:27,048 --> 00:57:31,553
"Well, who's gonna do the work?
Who's gonna shoulder this labor?"
693
00:57:32,595 --> 00:57:34,639
Just like, uh, 1863,
694
00:57:34,722 --> 00:57:37,225
the Emancipation Proclamation
raised the question of,
695
00:57:37,308 --> 00:57:41,145
"Well, if you let all the slaves go,
who's gonna pick the cotton?"
696
00:57:48,319 --> 00:57:52,115
[narrator] Goshen sits on the outskirts
of Pi-Ramesses.
697
00:57:53,116 --> 00:57:58,288
Abraham's grandson and great-grandson
settled there four centuries earlier
698
00:57:58,913 --> 00:58:01,457
when famine drove them out of Canaan.
699
00:58:01,958 --> 00:58:03,960
[intriguing music playing]
700
00:58:06,713 --> 00:58:08,715
[Einhorn] Pharaoh says,
"Great, bring them all here."
701
00:58:08,798 --> 00:58:09,799
"They'll settle the land."
702
00:58:09,882 --> 00:58:11,426
Over time what happens,
703
00:58:11,509 --> 00:58:13,636
the Israelites are seen
as like a fourth column.
704
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:16,014
They're growing fast.
They have their own identity.
705
00:58:16,097 --> 00:58:18,266
They're not blending in
as well as we want them to.
706
00:58:18,349 --> 00:58:19,767
We gotta watch out for them.
707
00:58:20,768 --> 00:58:24,939
So a system is then set up
whereby to keep them as not yet slaves,
708
00:58:25,023 --> 00:58:26,691
but these things happen gradually.
709
00:58:26,774 --> 00:58:30,445
Rights get taken away. Before you know it,
you look around and don't remember
710
00:58:30,528 --> 00:58:32,780
what life was like
before you had those rights.
711
00:58:33,448 --> 00:58:34,949
Hey. Hey.
712
00:58:42,915 --> 00:58:43,750
Miriam.
713
00:58:48,004 --> 00:58:49,631
This is our brother, Moses.
714
00:58:52,967 --> 00:58:55,303
[breathes deeply]
715
00:58:55,386 --> 00:58:57,347
I told you not to bring him back.
716
00:58:57,430 --> 00:58:59,515
[melancholy music swells]
717
00:59:02,060 --> 00:59:02,894
Come.
718
00:59:05,271 --> 00:59:08,066
It's fine. It's fine. Come. Please.
719
00:59:10,193 --> 00:59:11,027
Please.
720
00:59:12,362 --> 00:59:13,821
[Miriam] You must be parched.
721
00:59:18,284 --> 00:59:19,744
[Aaron] Do you want some food?
722
00:59:19,827 --> 00:59:21,579
Drink, and then you should leave.
723
00:59:24,123 --> 00:59:25,375
[Aaron] When have you eaten?
724
00:59:30,463 --> 00:59:32,215
That's how Mother wanted it.
725
00:59:32,298 --> 00:59:33,925
You should listen to him, Miriam.
726
00:59:34,717 --> 00:59:36,135
God has spoken to him.
727
00:59:37,762 --> 00:59:39,597
God comes to all of us in dreams.
728
00:59:39,681 --> 00:59:40,807
It was not a dream.
729
00:59:42,392 --> 00:59:43,976
He spoke to me on the mountain.
730
00:59:44,060 --> 00:59:46,229
He told me to come here,
to free our people,
731
00:59:46,938 --> 00:59:48,481
to lead them back to Canaan.
732
00:59:50,817 --> 00:59:54,153
Our God has not spoken to anyone
for hundreds of years.
733
00:59:54,237 --> 00:59:55,613
It is true.
734
01:00:01,661 --> 01:00:05,164
The Hebrews are in Egypt for 430 years.
735
01:00:05,248 --> 01:00:09,210
And most of that time
they've spent as slaves.
736
01:00:09,293 --> 01:00:14,966
What happened to the relationship
between God and the people of Israel
737
01:00:15,049 --> 01:00:19,262
during all those hopeless,
endless centuries of slavery?
738
01:00:19,345 --> 01:00:21,180
Did they give up?
739
01:00:21,264 --> 01:00:25,143
Did they conclude
that the stories they'd been told
740
01:00:25,226 --> 01:00:27,562
about their ancestor Abraham
741
01:00:27,645 --> 01:00:31,441
and the promise of eventually
being a free people in the Promised Land…
742
01:00:31,524 --> 01:00:34,402
Did they just conclude that was not true?
743
01:00:34,902 --> 01:00:37,196
And the Torah doesn't tell us.
744
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:42,076
But one of the lines
that really strikes me,
745
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:47,206
God is telling Moses,
"I have remembered my people."
746
01:00:47,874 --> 01:00:50,752
"I have heard their cries."
747
01:00:50,835 --> 01:00:57,049
Whenever I read that, my first reaction
is like, "What took you so long?"
748
01:00:59,594 --> 01:01:01,262
[faint groaning]
749
01:01:03,389 --> 01:01:04,265
Mother.
750
01:01:05,433 --> 01:01:06,392
[groaning]
751
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:11,397
Mother.
752
01:01:12,398 --> 01:01:14,525
-Let me take you to--
-She recognizes no one.
753
01:01:22,617 --> 01:01:24,619
[emotional music playing]
754
01:01:36,589 --> 01:01:38,299
My little Moses.
755
01:01:39,509 --> 01:01:41,719
Have you come back?
756
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:44,889
[crying]
757
01:01:45,848 --> 01:01:47,600
Thank you.
758
01:01:50,645 --> 01:01:52,146
Oh, thank you.
759
01:01:53,231 --> 01:01:54,440
Thank you.
760
01:02:09,038 --> 01:02:10,456
[Miriam] Do not tell the foremen.
761
01:02:10,540 --> 01:02:14,293
They owe their position to the Egyptians.
Just gather the elders for now.
762
01:02:15,628 --> 01:02:18,840
Moses, when they come,
you can address them.
763
01:02:20,383 --> 01:02:22,343
Not me. Aaron.
764
01:02:27,014 --> 01:02:30,476
[Nasser] In the Qur'an, when Moses
was talking to God on the mountain,
765
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:31,769
he told him,
766
01:02:31,853 --> 01:02:34,981
"Send Aaron with me
because he's more eloquent
767
01:02:35,064 --> 01:02:37,567
and he can express himself
better than I do."
768
01:02:37,650 --> 01:02:43,072
So the Qur'anic expression,
it's a tight or a knot in the tongue.
769
01:02:43,573 --> 01:02:47,243
How you interpret that,
it could be a physical defect,
770
01:02:47,326 --> 01:02:49,662
or it could be just psychological.
771
01:02:49,745 --> 01:02:52,748
That he's really afraid
to go back to Pharaoh,
772
01:02:52,832 --> 01:02:56,002
and probably he was not
as eloquent as Aaron was.
773
01:02:56,919 --> 01:03:00,339
This is a really beautiful moment
because he's telling God,
774
01:03:00,423 --> 01:03:03,718
"Look, I really could use some help
in this big mission."
775
01:03:03,801 --> 01:03:08,472
And God responds, and Aaron is, in fact,
exalted to the status of a prophet.
776
01:03:08,556 --> 01:03:13,978
So he's acting alongside Moses
to help in this mission.
777
01:03:15,104 --> 01:03:17,565
This is Moses, my brother.
778
01:03:18,441 --> 01:03:19,609
Not an Egyptian.
779
01:03:21,152 --> 01:03:22,403
But one of us.
780
01:03:23,279 --> 01:03:25,364
He has come to us with a message.
781
01:03:28,284 --> 01:03:29,243
What message?
782
01:03:35,333 --> 01:03:37,668
Dathan, the head foreman.
783
01:03:38,336 --> 01:03:39,837
You remember my brother.
784
01:03:41,047 --> 01:03:42,173
He's a good man.
785
01:03:42,757 --> 01:03:44,508
Even when he lived as an Egyptian.
786
01:03:44,592 --> 01:03:46,928
He slew the guard that whipped Bukki.
787
01:03:48,930 --> 01:03:50,181
I remember well.
788
01:03:51,307 --> 01:03:52,224
And God…
789
01:03:54,852 --> 01:03:55,686
our God…
790
01:03:57,229 --> 01:03:58,606
God of Abraham,
791
01:03:59,273 --> 01:04:01,567
has come to my brother
792
01:04:01,651 --> 01:04:05,404
and commanded him
to lead us out of bondage
793
01:04:06,197 --> 01:04:09,742
so we may return
to the land whence we came.
794
01:04:12,453 --> 01:04:13,579
Did he say how?
795
01:04:16,624 --> 01:04:17,625
[woman] Ask him how.
796
01:04:19,627 --> 01:04:22,213
We will ask Pharaoh
to let us travel outside the city.
797
01:04:22,296 --> 01:04:23,881
-[man] My God!
-[woman 2] No!
798
01:04:23,965 --> 01:04:25,049
All of us.
799
01:04:26,008 --> 01:04:29,178
We shall say that our sacrifice
is due to our God.
800
01:04:29,261 --> 01:04:32,723
Animal sacrifices
that would anger the Egyptians.
801
01:04:33,557 --> 01:04:36,602
Pharaoh will let us go to the desert
for three days.
802
01:04:36,686 --> 01:04:38,938
Once out of sight, we will flee.
803
01:04:40,398 --> 01:04:42,316
[tense music playing]
804
01:04:42,817 --> 01:04:46,237
Son of Amram,
I want to believe your brother's story.
805
01:04:46,737 --> 01:04:49,240
But if you go to Pharaoh
with this request,
806
01:04:49,323 --> 01:04:50,866
he will laugh at you.
807
01:04:57,164 --> 01:05:00,167
My brother has spoken to God.
808
01:05:00,251 --> 01:05:01,210
[woman 3] What?
809
01:05:04,338 --> 01:05:07,299
He commanded me to free you.
810
01:05:10,386 --> 01:05:11,721
To free our people.
811
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,348
If God tells us to do it,
812
01:05:15,766 --> 01:05:17,101
then it will work.
813
01:05:27,361 --> 01:05:28,404
Moses.
814
01:05:30,072 --> 01:05:31,574
Did he tell you his name?
815
01:05:32,867 --> 01:05:34,869
Yes. Yes. I know it.
816
01:05:39,206 --> 01:05:40,791
In every generation,
817
01:05:41,792 --> 01:05:44,462
the name of our God has passed down.
818
01:05:45,421 --> 01:05:48,132
So we would know it
when a time came like this.
819
01:05:50,509 --> 01:05:51,343
Serah.
820
01:05:53,220 --> 01:05:58,225
They said, "Let's consult the old lady,
Serah Bat Asher."
821
01:05:59,268 --> 01:06:01,771
Does he have the special words?
822
01:06:02,646 --> 01:06:04,565
[Miriam] You know the name, yes?
823
01:06:06,942 --> 01:06:08,360
Your mother told you.
824
01:06:12,114 --> 01:06:14,283
So if Moses knows the name,
825
01:06:15,326 --> 01:06:17,369
he has seen our God.
826
01:06:19,246 --> 01:06:20,122
Moses.
827
01:06:21,082 --> 01:06:23,084
[tense music continues]
828
01:06:41,936 --> 01:06:43,437
[singing]
829
01:06:44,563 --> 01:06:46,565
[dramatic music playing]
830
01:07:02,957 --> 01:07:04,083
God is with us.
831
01:07:04,959 --> 01:07:08,963
She says, "Ah! He has the special words,
the words of redemption."
832
01:07:09,046 --> 01:07:10,756
"He's for real."
833
01:07:12,466 --> 01:07:15,970
"He's the redeemer.
He's God's chosen prophet."
834
01:07:22,935 --> 01:07:24,186
So much for secrecy.
835
01:07:41,370 --> 01:07:43,664
Is it true? Has our God returned?
836
01:07:48,335 --> 01:07:49,420
Tell us about Him.
837
01:07:49,503 --> 01:07:51,505
[dramatic music swells]
838
01:07:55,384 --> 01:07:56,468
[Yahweh] Show them.
839
01:08:03,851 --> 01:08:06,353
He is the one true God.
840
01:08:07,855 --> 01:08:10,274
He is the God who protected Joseph
841
01:08:11,483 --> 01:08:13,652
when his brothers betrayed him.
842
01:08:14,862 --> 01:08:16,530
He is the God who told him
843
01:08:17,448 --> 01:08:22,828
that one day his bones
will be returned to Canaan.
844
01:08:24,330 --> 01:08:29,001
He is the same God
who made a contract with Abraham,
845
01:08:29,084 --> 01:08:31,086
Joseph's great-grandfather.
846
01:08:32,630 --> 01:08:35,257
So our people would belong to him forever.
847
01:08:35,341 --> 01:08:37,092
Was it Abraham who wrestled with God?
848
01:08:37,927 --> 01:08:41,597
No, that was Jacob, Joseph's father.
849
01:08:41,680 --> 01:08:45,059
He met the Lord at night
and they wrestled until dawn.
850
01:08:45,643 --> 01:08:48,479
And he would not let the Lord go
until He blessed him.
851
01:08:48,562 --> 01:08:53,234
And when the Lord blessed him,
He named him Israel.
852
01:08:54,235 --> 01:08:55,861
He who prevails with God.
853
01:08:56,862 --> 01:08:58,572
What is our homeland like?
854
01:08:58,656 --> 01:09:00,115
Is it true there was a flood?
855
01:09:00,199 --> 01:09:01,742
What about the animals?
856
01:09:01,825 --> 01:09:03,077
[all laughing]
857
01:09:03,160 --> 01:09:04,703
Yes, there was a flood.
858
01:09:05,412 --> 01:09:08,207
And the man who saved us from it
was called Noah.
859
01:09:08,290 --> 01:09:09,458
He built an ark.
860
01:09:09,541 --> 01:09:11,543
How many days did the flood last?
861
01:09:11,627 --> 01:09:13,420
Forty days and forty nights.
862
01:09:13,504 --> 01:09:14,964
How was the world made?
863
01:09:15,047 --> 01:09:17,549
Our God made it in six days.
864
01:09:18,968 --> 01:09:21,011
[narrator] And he speaks of Adam and Eve,
865
01:09:21,095 --> 01:09:24,723
Noah, Isaac, and Ishmael,
866
01:09:24,807 --> 01:09:26,433
Jacob and Esau.
867
01:09:27,810 --> 01:09:32,815
The man who fled Egypt a fugitive
returns home a prophet.
868
01:09:36,402 --> 01:09:37,778
[gentle music playing]
869
01:09:37,861 --> 01:09:39,822
How did you know I knew the name?
870
01:09:41,532 --> 01:09:42,741
I am a midwife.
871
01:09:44,368 --> 01:09:45,661
We are close to God.
872
01:09:46,537 --> 01:09:49,164
At birth and death
you can feel His presence.
873
01:09:51,208 --> 01:09:53,168
Yet you have no children of your own.
874
01:09:54,712 --> 01:09:56,755
When it was my time to take a husband,
875
01:09:58,340 --> 01:10:00,217
they were still killing baby boys.
876
01:10:05,014 --> 01:10:06,724
I prefer to help the others.
877
01:10:13,731 --> 01:10:15,232
That's where you were.
878
01:10:19,028 --> 01:10:21,113
Near the garden of the women's palace.
879
01:10:22,281 --> 01:10:24,033
When the princess collected you.
880
01:10:26,410 --> 01:10:27,244
You saw it?
881
01:10:31,749 --> 01:10:32,916
I made it happen.
882
01:10:35,044 --> 01:10:36,545
[dramatic music playing]
883
01:11:09,536 --> 01:11:11,538
[woman sobbing]
884
01:11:27,012 --> 01:11:28,347
[sobbing]
885
01:11:44,154 --> 01:11:45,614
[baby wails]
886
01:11:53,622 --> 01:11:56,792
[Ibrahim] So Moses's mother
says one word to his sister.
887
01:11:57,292 --> 01:11:58,377
"Follow him."
888
01:11:58,877 --> 01:12:01,630
And in Arabic, it's actually one word.
889
01:12:02,172 --> 01:12:06,635
And so she is quite brave
in following this child.
890
01:12:06,718 --> 01:12:09,847
Shiphrah! Shiphrah,
I need to tell you something.
891
01:12:10,639 --> 01:12:12,975
[Ibrahim] And she is very witty
on her feet
892
01:12:13,058 --> 01:12:17,604
and finds a way to get her brother
returned to their biological mother.
893
01:12:19,440 --> 01:12:21,275
Forgive me, my lady.
894
01:12:22,025 --> 01:12:25,154
I know a wet nurse
for the princess's baby.
895
01:12:34,371 --> 01:12:38,917
The princess,
the daughter of Pharaoh, never asks,
896
01:12:40,169 --> 01:12:41,170
"Who are you?"
897
01:12:41,920 --> 01:12:44,006
Presumably, she does not know
898
01:12:44,089 --> 01:12:47,342
that this is the infant's
biological mother.
899
01:12:50,721 --> 01:12:56,560
So, of course the biological mother
is destined to become the one
900
01:12:56,643 --> 01:12:58,228
at whose breast he will feed,
901
01:12:58,312 --> 01:13:02,649
and he will spend
the first two or three years
902
01:13:03,192 --> 01:13:05,068
nursing at his mother's breast.
903
01:13:05,569 --> 01:13:12,159
That means that his mame-loshn,
his mother tongue, he hears from infancy,
904
01:13:13,452 --> 01:13:16,038
lullabies, Hebrew.
905
01:13:16,538 --> 01:13:18,874
Uh, I imagine a song,
906
01:13:18,957 --> 01:13:23,462
a lullaby that he took with him
in his subconscious memory.
907
01:13:23,545 --> 01:13:25,547
[humming]
908
01:13:28,258 --> 01:13:30,886
[Ibrahim] I love the fact
that the story begins
909
01:13:30,969 --> 01:13:34,723
with this one nursing woman
and her infant.
910
01:13:34,806 --> 01:13:38,101
I mean, how-- how likely
in our conception do we think
911
01:13:38,185 --> 01:13:42,439
that a revolution is going to start
with a-- you know, a nursing mother?
912
01:13:46,944 --> 01:13:48,612
[Miriam] There was a higher force.
913
01:13:49,196 --> 01:13:50,155
Always.
914
01:13:51,073 --> 01:13:53,450
Taking you away, then bringing you home.
915
01:13:55,827 --> 01:13:57,579
You are our link.
916
01:13:58,956 --> 01:14:00,499
The one who goes between.
917
01:14:05,837 --> 01:14:08,507
My mother will help me
speak to Pharaoh tomorrow.
918
01:14:11,843 --> 01:14:14,012
Pharaoh's sister is not your mother.
919
01:14:15,973 --> 01:14:18,809
She is not, and yet she is.
920
01:14:22,354 --> 01:14:24,356
[dramatic music rising]
921
01:14:33,198 --> 01:14:35,200
[tense music playing]
922
01:14:36,535 --> 01:14:38,203
[handmaid] Someone approaches, my lady.
923
01:14:39,746 --> 01:14:40,956
From a long journey.
924
01:14:45,460 --> 01:14:46,420
A stranger.
925
01:14:47,713 --> 01:14:49,423
Yet he knows your heart.
926
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:53,343
You've gone pale, my lady.
927
01:14:53,844 --> 01:14:55,178
What's wrong?
928
01:14:58,807 --> 01:15:00,392
My son has returned.
929
01:15:07,691 --> 01:15:08,942
It's Moses.
930
01:15:12,446 --> 01:15:13,905
[closing theme music playing]
931
01:15:14,905 --> 01:15:34,905
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