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[ominous music playing]
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[Yahweh] Moses.
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My Lord.
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Tonight is different
from all other nights.
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How, my Lord?
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All the firstborn
in the land of Egypt will die.
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From the firstborn of Pharaoh
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to the firstborn
of the poorest maidservant.
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What about the Hebrews?
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Listen closely.
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Every family is to eat
from a sacrificial lamb
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prepared with bitter herbs.
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Eat it with bread without leaven,
for there is no time for it to rise.
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Take the lamb's blood and paint it
around the doors of your houses
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to show where you live
as a protection from my vengeance.
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I'm looking for the house of Moses.
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I'm frightened, Moses.
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There must be another way.
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[Yahweh] I am the destroyer.
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Inside. Quickly.
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Quickly.
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[narrator] And so the tenth plague begins.
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Death of the firstborn.
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[epic music playing]
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[tense music playing]
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[Kang] The last plague is so devastating
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because it's saying
every firstborn in Egypt,
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from the Pharaoh's firstborn
to, like, the nobody's firstborn,
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to, like, the cattle,
they're all gonna die.
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For Christianity, this is a foreshadowing
of the New Testament and Jesus Christ.
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Blood of the Lamb.
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Sacrifice of the lamb.
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And it's only by his blood
that you're gonna be saved.
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Exodus only by the blood of this lamb
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on the doorpost
that you're gonna be saved.
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Please. Eat.
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Drink.
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[Lewter] It was the marking
of the Hebrew homes
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with the blood of the lamb on the doorpost
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that caused the angel
to pass over that home.
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[Adelman] That's where we get
the term Passover from.
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Passes over their houses
and instead strikes the Egyptians.
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[tense music continues]
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[chatter and laughter]
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[man] This one here. This is delicious.
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[objects clatter]
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[chatter stops]
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Amen?
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Amen?
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Amen!
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[screaming]
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Egyptians screaming]
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[Enns] One way of thinking about it
is tit for tat.
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What does Pharaoh do
at the beginning of Exodus,
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but he kills the male children.
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And here it's the firstborn
who are getting it.
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The story is coming full circle.
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What you tried to do to mine,
I'm now doing to yours.
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[sorrowful music playing]
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[Egyptians screaming]
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Ancient rabbinic tradition
does not celebrate the suffering
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that the plagues deliver
to the people in Egypt.
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When we come to the part
of the Passover seder
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where we chant the ten plagues,
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we're instructed to take
a drop of wine out of our cups
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with our finger
and place it on the edge of our plate.
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It is wrong to take pleasure
in the suffering of others.
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Whether they are people who have harmed us
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or whether they are innocent people.
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And therefore,
we symbolically diminish our joy.
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[screaming and sobbing]
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[panting]
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Moses! Moses!
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In Chapter 12, you have the destroyer
as coming down.
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And sometimes that's understood
as the Angel of Death.
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It doesn't say God.
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Moses!
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[Enns] But right after that in the story,
it does say God did it.
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So I don't know
if this is trying to put distance
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between God and what God is doing.
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Moses.
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Moses.
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[narrator] "And there was
a great cry in Egypt."
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"For there was not a house
where there was not one dead."
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Moses!
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Please! We must go, please!
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[Lewter] I think redactors
and biblical authors
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have substituted a death angel
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to absolve God
from some of the more fierce
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and some of the more vengeful character
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that would be associated with any god
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who would take the lives of children
and the lives of the innocent.
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What have we done?
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What God asked you to.
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[sorrowful music swells]
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[somber music playing]
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[Kang] I look at that last plague,
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and it is absolutely devastating.
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It's all the reasons why you hear, um,
these arguments against God.
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How could a loving God
allow this to happen?
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What kind of vengeful God would do this?
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You would kill all the firstborn?
What kind of merciless God are you?
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And I'll be totally honest,
there's not a good answer for that.
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But just on a humanity level,
that is devastating.
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Moses.
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Where are you, Moses?
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Moses!
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Moses!
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Where are you?
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Answer me!
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-My brother.
-Bolt the door.
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-I must go to him.
-No!
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[Pharaoh] Answer me!
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I will.
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Moses is not here.
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Too ashamed to stand face-to-face with me?
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My son is dead!
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Our children have died too, at your hands.
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You were warned.
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No man could stand in the way of God.
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Your God is nothing but a murderer.
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He is the giver of life.
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And the taker.
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My son…
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My son.
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[somber music playing]
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Go to the desert.
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Go now.
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No conditions?
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None.
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As long as you leave now.
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Stay with us.
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No.
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I must grieve Egypt's loss with him.
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His loss.
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[rousing music playing]
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We must leave. Quickly.
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Before he changes his mind.
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[grave music playing]
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Oh, beloved boy.
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You brought this evil into my house.
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You pushed Moses to this…
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calamity.
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And look what happened.
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You thought you were invincible.
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Invulnerable.
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I commune with gods.
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Do you?
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[tense music playing]
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Bow to me.
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-I'm begging you to heed me.
-Bow!
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[tense music swells]
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I am Pharaoh!
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King of the Nile!
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[narrator] "The Egyptians urged the people
to hurry and leave the country."
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"'For otherwise,'
they said, 'we shall all die.'"
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[Einhorn] Everything
now moves very quickly.
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It's as though there sort of is
a collapsing of time.
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You've been here all these years.
How long? Two, ten, four hundred?
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They lost track of time.
A slave is not in charge of their time.
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A slave is told where to be and when.
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Now, for the first time,
they're told, "Let's go."
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They are no longer slaves to time.
They will take charge of time.
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[foreboding music playing]
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[narrator] "They had asked
from the Egyptians articles of silver,
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articles of gold and clothing."
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"And the Lord had given the people favor
in the sight of the Egyptians
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so that they granted them
what they requested."
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"Thus, they plundered the Egyptians."
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"Plundering" is the word that I typically
have heard translate the Hebrew.
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But let's not mince words.
It's the same idea.
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"We're gonna get ours now."
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Actually, this was such a problem
in early Judaism
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that the Jewish philosopher Philo,
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he argued, "No, no, this was payment
for services rendered."
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It wasn't really plundering or despoiling.
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It's something that we deserved,
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and we got because of all
that we've gone through.
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I just wish the Bible came with footnotes.
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Like, "What are you trying
to get across by that,
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other than the tables have turned?"
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[Moses] Is this…
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Is this what we are to become?
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This?
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Moses!
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Didn't you give me jewels to wear
when we were betrothed?
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Today is also a betrothal.
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Four hundred years, Moses.
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Let them celebrate.
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[man] He cannot be happy for us.
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The day was foretold long ago.
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Our departure for Canaan.
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The land of milk and honey.
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After 400 years,
that day has finally arrived.
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We have been besieged
by struggles in that time.
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By toil, hardship, and suffering.
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We had forgotten who we were.
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Thank God.
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God spoke to me on the mountain.
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Now here we are.
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Here we are,
standing on this beautiful morning
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at freedom's gate.
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Do we suddenly trust Pharaoh to let us go?
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How many times has he changed his plans?
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This whole thing might be a trap.
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No.
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The only trap now is here in our minds.
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From this day, our God is our betrothed
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and we are his bride.
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[Bithiah] Moses!
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[solemn music playing]
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-[woman 1] Hey!
-[woman 2] The princess.
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Wherever you go, I will go.
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And where you stay, I will stay.
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When Moses leads this group
back out of Egypt,
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Bithiah joins them
in his Exodus from Egypt.
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And I think that is telling.
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And I think that says a whole lot
about who Moses had become
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and the degree to which he impressed
even his own family to follow him.
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[Adelman] In the Midrash,
there's one poignant version
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which says that the daughter
of the pharaoh was a firstborn,
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and she would have died
in the plague of the firstborn.
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But God says, "Because you saved Moses,
I'm going to save you."
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That's the point where she's adopted
by God and saved from the final plague.
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To many Muslims, when they think
about the adopted mother of Moses,
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they think of a person who has been
oppressed by Pharaoh as well.
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And, in fact,
in extra Qur'anic literature,
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it's said that when Moses comes back,
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she is actually one of the first
to accept his message.
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And it's narrated that Pharaoh
then proceeded to torture her,
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and that God rescued her
from-- from the horrendous torture
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that-- that Pharaoh himself
was exerting upon her.
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So she becomes, in the Islamic tradition,
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an inspiration for women
who are caught in domestic violence
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who-- who need an escape,
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and that she can be
a figure to look towards.
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[uplifting music playing]
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Moses, we must waste no time.
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My brother has lost his mind.
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Israelites!
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Let us go!
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Let us go!
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[cheering]
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[triumphant music playing]
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[ululating and cheering]
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[Einhorn] There's a line
from the Passover evening
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that we say in our text,
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if God had not taken us out of Egypt,
we'd still be slaves to Pharaoh.
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Doesn't mean we'd still be slaves.
It means psychologically.
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Psychologically, we still would have
been beholden to our master.
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It's Stockholm syndrome.
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One of the ways to undercut
and to heal from Stockholm syndrome
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is the minimization of the captor,
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where you see
they were not people of value.
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These are not people who are kind to us.
Not good people.
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And the minute they see that,
that Stockholm syndrome is gone.
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And they're free. They're liberated.
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[ominous music playing]
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[Haman] I made a sacrifice to Amun.
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He has finally saved us from this evil.
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No, we have misjudged, Haman!
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If one tribe of workers leaves,
so will others.
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The Nubians, the Hittites.
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Foundations will crumble.
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Prepare the army.
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Majesty, I beg you.
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Prepare the army.
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[dramatic percussive music playing]
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[Kang] I think there's a lot
to be said in the fact
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that it was that tenth plague
that personally affects Pharaoh
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that was like, that's the straw
that broke the camel's back, so to speak.
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[Lewter] I think
when Pharaoh gets to the point
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where he realizes that the son is gone,
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his heart is filled with retaliation.
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And then Pharaoh changes his mind
and chases them.
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I sometimes picture
like a cat-and-mouse game,
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you know, where the cat
is chasing the mouse
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and has it in his mouth,
then lets it go and revives it a bit,
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then goes back and starts
playing with it some more.
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That's the picture I get here
of God in this story.
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[dramatic music playing]
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[Aaron] Canaan is north. This way.
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[Moses] We will be crossing
through Philistine land.
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They could attack us.
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[Aaron] Then we'll have to fight.
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It's the only way, Moses.
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Then north.
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Across the desert to the Promised Land!
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[wind blowing wildly]
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Aaron! Aaron!
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He's showing us the way!
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No, that way leads us to the sea!
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Between Midgol and Baal-zephon!
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-I've seen this once before!
-But we'll be trapped!
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-It led me back to you!
-I'm telling you, brother!
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It's a sign!
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We'll need a fleet of a thousand ships
to leave Egypt that way!
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[narrator] "When Pharaoh
let the people go,
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God did not lead them on the road
through the Philistine country,
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though that was shorter."
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"For God said, 'If they face war,
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they might change their minds
and return to Egypt.'"
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"So God led the people round
by the desert road toward the Red Sea."
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[Einhorn] There are many interpretations
why God led the people
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in a strange and funny direction.
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And explanations range
from military reasons
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or, um, some promise of a deliverance
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through the water sources
that they would need.
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And all of those
may have a kernel of truth to it.
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But the Torah is meant to be a text
which speaks to us to this day.
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And therefore, the message
that is most relevant from the journey
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that God took them on is that the way
that you thought you needed to go in life,
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God says, "I'm the one who's got you.
I know the way that you need. Follow me."
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[narrator] "By day, the Lord went
ahead of them in a pillar of cloud
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to guide them on their way."
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[dramatic music playing]
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"And by night,
in a pillar of fire to give them light,
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so that they could travel
by day or night."
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"And the Egyptians pursued."
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[tense music playing]
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[Aaron] Told you, brother.
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There's nothing here but the sea.
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We need to go back.
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Must have a purpose.
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[Egyptians approaching]
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[narrator] "The Egyptians,
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all Pharaoh's horses and chariots,
horsemen, and troops,
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pursued the Israelites and overtook them
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as they camped
by the sea near Pi-hahiroth,
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opposite Baal-zephon."
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[uneasy music playing]
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Tell us, Moses, what does God say?
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[Dathan] I told you it was a trick.
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We camp here.
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We camp here!
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Pharaoh will slaughter us where we lie.
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[Moses] We camp here!
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[crashing and rumbling]
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No.
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Look, he's right.
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Moses is right!
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[inspiring music playing]
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God provides them with this saving grace.
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This visual impossible presence
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that they also recognize
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not only is serving as a compass,
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but is also a force of protection.
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[dark music playing]
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-[men groaning]
-[horses neighing]
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Tell them to go around it!
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We cannot, Majesty.
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Every time we try to move,
it moves with us.
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My Lord, it seems to be alive.
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[Pharaoh grunts]
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The man who finds a way around that thing
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will be my heir.
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[dramatic musical flourish]
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[baby crying]
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[sighs]
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You must have had a purpose
in leading us here.
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So tell me, my Lord.
What is it? Show it to me.
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[Yahweh] Moses.
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Lift up your staff.
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[thunder rumbling]
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[electrifying music playing]
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Stretch out your hand.
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[narrator] "Then Moses
stretched out his hand over the sea."
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"And the Lord caused the sea to go back
by a strong east wind all that night."
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[Kirsch] Why did the Red Sea part?
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Some Bible scholars argue
that if it did happen
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as it's described in the Bible,
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it's because of an earthquake,
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and the earthquake opened a fissure,
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and all this water
drained away from the sea.
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And attributing it
to an incident of nature.
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That was not the intent
of the biblical author.
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The Bible makes no bones about it.
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God empowers Moses
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to raise his staff, and it's a miracle.
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[epic music playing]
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[man 1] What is happening?
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-[man 2] We won't survive!
-[man 3] We should turn around!
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[woman 1] We will be crushed by the sea!
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-[man 4] We will all be killed!
-[woman 2] Let us go back!
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Their God has no limits, Majesty.
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[Pharaoh] Ours will not accept that.
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[Moses] You see that?
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This is God.
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You see that? This is God!
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You must have faith!
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[epic music continues]
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As you'll see.
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Would you save yourself
and leave your children behind?
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No. Neither will He.
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God needs all of us.
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All of His children.
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All of us!
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Let us go back while there's time.
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00:32:12,535 --> 00:32:14,579
We'll never make it through that alive.
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00:32:15,663 --> 00:32:16,956
I would rather drown.
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00:32:28,551 --> 00:32:30,553
[inspiring music playing]
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00:32:31,679 --> 00:32:33,639
[Einhorn] There's so many
great Midrashic teachings
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related to the splitting of the sea.
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00:32:35,266 --> 00:32:37,810
And one great teaching
is the angels looked up and said,
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"These are the people you're saving?"
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00:32:39,812 --> 00:32:42,273
"They worshiped idols,
the Egyptians worshiped idols."
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00:32:42,940 --> 00:32:45,193
"Humans are all garbage.
They're all the same."
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00:32:45,818 --> 00:32:48,738
God said, "You're missing something."
They go, "What?" He goes, "Look."
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00:32:49,739 --> 00:32:51,157
"They're walking together."
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00:32:51,908 --> 00:32:53,201
That's the key.
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00:32:53,868 --> 00:32:57,121
Forget whatever they did.
Everybody's gonna mess up in life.
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00:32:57,205 --> 00:32:59,707
But as long as humans
can learn to stick together
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and to work with each other,
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that's what God's waiting for.
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[Haman] They'll perish in the sea.
It's madness to follow them!
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[Pharaoh] No.
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Their god flees!
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00:33:18,726 --> 00:33:23,231
Do you doubt the evidence
of your own eyes?
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Majesty.
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00:33:25,024 --> 00:33:27,693
Our children have already been taken.
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00:33:28,444 --> 00:33:30,738
These are your best warriors.
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Prepare my chariot.
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00:33:34,492 --> 00:33:35,326
Majesty…
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[Pharaoh] We will run them down
and kill them all.
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[narrator] "And so the children of Israel
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went into the midst of the sea
on the dry ground."
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"And the waters were a wall to them
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on their right and on their left."
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00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:11,696
"And the Egyptians pursued."
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00:34:11,779 --> 00:34:13,781
[dramatic music playing]
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00:34:22,039 --> 00:34:24,041
[Egyptians soldiers chanting]
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[war horns blowing]
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00:34:36,512 --> 00:34:37,430
Quick!
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00:34:38,097 --> 00:34:39,765
-Go.
-No!
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00:34:39,849 --> 00:34:40,975
Do as I say.
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00:34:41,475 --> 00:34:42,310
Go.
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00:34:45,771 --> 00:34:47,148
[Zipporah] Go! Quick!
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00:34:50,359 --> 00:34:51,360
Go!
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00:34:55,781 --> 00:34:56,782
Go!
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00:34:58,159 --> 00:35:00,161
[dramatic music continues]
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[narrator] "Moses stretched out his hand
over the sea."
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"At daybreak,
the sea went back to its place."
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00:35:25,061 --> 00:35:29,440
"The water flowed back
and covered the chariots and horses."
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00:35:34,695 --> 00:35:36,822
[dramatic music fades]
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00:35:36,906 --> 00:35:39,659
"The entire army of Pharaoh
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that had followed
the Israelites into the sea."
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00:35:44,997 --> 00:35:47,208
"Not one of them survived."
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00:35:47,291 --> 00:35:49,293
[melancholy music playing]
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00:35:52,213 --> 00:35:54,340
One of my daughters,
when she was ten years old,
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00:35:54,423 --> 00:35:57,301
came home from Sunday school,
and this was a story they read.
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00:35:57,385 --> 00:36:02,139
The-- The Red Sea story,
and where they all die in the Red Sea.
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And, um, she was very distraught.
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00:36:04,725 --> 00:36:07,853
She said… "Why would God do that?"
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"Aren't they God's children too?"
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00:36:11,107 --> 00:36:14,902
And I thought to myself, "Dang, girl.
That's a really good insight right there."
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00:36:14,986 --> 00:36:16,737
You know, why would God do that?
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00:36:20,908 --> 00:36:23,577
[Ibrahim] So the story,
where it's told in the Qur'an,
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ends with the drowning of Pharaoh.
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00:36:26,122 --> 00:36:27,832
When the story is told,
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he does say that, you know,
"I believe in the god of Aaron and Moses."
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00:36:33,671 --> 00:36:35,339
But it's too late at that point.
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00:36:37,258 --> 00:36:39,552
[Nasser] There's actually
an interesting story.
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Gabriel, one of the great, right, angels,
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he tells Muhammad that,
"There are two people I hate the most."
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"Satan and Pharaoh."
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00:36:53,566 --> 00:36:59,697
Gabriel says that, "I was so scared
that Pharaoh would convert to Islam
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right before his death,
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I started putting mud in his mouth
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so that he wouldn't convert
to become Muslim or to believe in God."
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[Miriam singing in Hebrew]
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[Meyers] There are
among the Dead Sea Scrolls
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a short piece that's a scroll
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that's representing
part of the Book of Exodus.
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It's a damaged fragment,
but there clearly was a long song, uh,
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attributed to Miriam.
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00:38:09,558 --> 00:38:11,560
[continues singing]
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[Meyers] This is a victory song.
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The people have escaped,
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and God is the warrior
that defeated the Egyptians
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and saved the people.
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00:38:22,738 --> 00:38:24,740
[continues singing]
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It says, "Who is like unto you, Yahweh,
among the gods?"
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In other words,
"You're the greatest god of all."
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00:38:47,138 --> 00:38:50,683
This is the first
important theological message
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00:38:50,766 --> 00:38:53,102
of Jewish, Christian, Muslim tradition.
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And it comes attributed
to the mouth of a woman.
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[continues singing in Hebrew]
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Adonai.
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[Enns] Moses has saved the world
like Noah has.
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With Noah, there's the water that recedes,
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and then landing on dry land
to start over again.
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And then you have the Red Sea incident,
which is the water splits,
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the dry land is in there,
and that is life for them.
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So they get to the other side,
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00:39:27,678 --> 00:39:30,014
so they can start
their new life as a nation.
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00:39:30,097 --> 00:39:31,515
But they're connected.
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00:39:31,599 --> 00:39:36,145
And I think the connection
is that when God saves,
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creation gets involved.
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00:39:43,235 --> 00:39:44,445
My brother…
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00:39:47,573 --> 00:39:48,574
we are free.
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00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:51,994
We are?
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[triumphant music playing]
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00:39:57,249 --> 00:39:58,334
[sniffles]
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[narrator] "Then Moses
led the people of Israel
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from the Red Sea,
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and they went into the Desert of Shur."
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00:40:13,599 --> 00:40:15,809
[solemn music playing]
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00:40:15,893 --> 00:40:20,981
"For three days they traveled
in the desert without finding water."
511
00:40:22,525 --> 00:40:25,778
[Harris] Here's this shocked,
traumatized people
512
00:40:25,861 --> 00:40:28,614
that are now in the wilderness
513
00:40:29,782 --> 00:40:33,452
and have every reason to be confused,
514
00:40:34,245 --> 00:40:36,372
frightened, uncertain.
515
00:40:38,374 --> 00:40:41,710
They very literally
don't know where they are.
516
00:40:44,088 --> 00:40:49,134
They've got plenty of experiences
demonstrating clearly to them
517
00:40:49,218 --> 00:40:53,305
that their God is real
and that their God has rescued them.
518
00:40:54,765 --> 00:40:57,851
But they're being asked to imagine forward
519
00:40:57,935 --> 00:41:01,397
into something that is beyond
what they can picture.
520
00:41:02,231 --> 00:41:04,733
[woman 1] My children haven't eaten
in three days.
521
00:41:04,817 --> 00:41:06,986
[Harris] And they're following Moses,
522
00:41:07,069 --> 00:41:09,822
but they also know
that Moses can't picture it either.
523
00:41:12,032 --> 00:41:13,701
[Moses] Give me a sign, my Lord.
524
00:41:14,868 --> 00:41:16,662
[man 1] Has he led us out here to die?
525
00:41:16,745 --> 00:41:19,790
-[woman 2] This is madness!
-[man 2] We should have stayed in Egypt.
526
00:41:23,085 --> 00:41:24,920
[Einhorn] They've been slaves
and just got free.
527
00:41:25,004 --> 00:41:27,965
Just when they thought it was over,
it's not over.
528
00:41:28,048 --> 00:41:29,508
And right there it captures it.
529
00:41:29,592 --> 00:41:30,593
That's life.
530
00:41:30,676 --> 00:41:34,513
You passed one test
and-- and you learn something from it,
531
00:41:34,597 --> 00:41:36,348
but you're not there yet.
532
00:41:36,432 --> 00:41:39,435
And the message of the Torah
is that you never arrive.
533
00:41:40,894 --> 00:41:43,105
It's more about the journey
than the destination.
534
00:41:52,656 --> 00:41:54,158
My Lord, where are you?
535
00:41:54,992 --> 00:41:57,077
My people are thirsty and starving.
536
00:42:04,293 --> 00:42:05,878
You will speak to me!
537
00:42:08,422 --> 00:42:10,424
[solemn music swells]
538
00:42:25,272 --> 00:42:27,941
The people are afraid, Moses.
539
00:42:41,497 --> 00:42:43,248
He no longer speaks to me.
540
00:42:44,541 --> 00:42:45,417
Who?
541
00:42:46,752 --> 00:42:47,878
God.
542
00:42:49,129 --> 00:42:50,214
He is gone.
543
00:42:52,049 --> 00:42:54,259
[uneasy music playing]
544
00:42:55,678 --> 00:42:56,762
Perhaps not.
545
00:42:57,596 --> 00:42:59,348
Perhaps He tests you here.
546
00:42:59,431 --> 00:43:01,100
This time is too much.
547
00:43:04,228 --> 00:43:05,062
No.
548
00:43:06,397 --> 00:43:07,231
No.
549
00:43:08,982 --> 00:43:09,817
No.
550
00:43:21,370 --> 00:43:22,538
[music distorts]
551
00:43:29,044 --> 00:43:30,754
[Yahweh] Show them the way.
552
00:43:51,442 --> 00:43:53,569
God's will we will find water today.
553
00:43:58,407 --> 00:43:59,408
We turn south.
554
00:44:01,493 --> 00:44:03,746
-Canaan is north, brother.
-I know.
555
00:44:04,371 --> 00:44:06,123
We're going south to Midian.
556
00:44:06,206 --> 00:44:07,332
To Midian?
557
00:44:07,916 --> 00:44:10,335
To the mountain
where He first spoke to me.
558
00:44:10,419 --> 00:44:12,212
We're going to the Promised Land.
559
00:44:12,296 --> 00:44:13,672
We will get there.
560
00:44:18,135 --> 00:44:19,344
How will we survive?
561
00:44:21,805 --> 00:44:23,557
What will we tell our people?
562
00:44:26,477 --> 00:44:27,603
He will provide.
563
00:44:33,233 --> 00:44:34,568
[narrator] "In the desert,
564
00:44:34,651 --> 00:44:38,405
the whole community
grumbled against Moses and Aaron."
565
00:44:39,281 --> 00:44:41,283
"The Israelites said to them,
566
00:44:41,366 --> 00:44:45,454
'If only we had died
by the Lord's hand in Egypt!'"
567
00:44:45,537 --> 00:44:50,292
"'There, we sat around pots of meat
and ate all the food we wanted.'"
568
00:44:50,876 --> 00:44:56,632
"'You have brought us out into this desert
to starve this entire assembly to death.'"
569
00:44:59,927 --> 00:45:01,929
[Einhorn] The road is long.
The challenges are many.
570
00:45:02,012 --> 00:45:04,681
And you see this tiredness
that happens with the people
571
00:45:04,765 --> 00:45:08,060
where they get snappy, and you wonder,
"How could they be so ungrateful?"
572
00:45:08,143 --> 00:45:10,062
"Didn't they see
everything that happened?"
573
00:45:10,145 --> 00:45:13,232
You're saying that when you walked out
of this air-conditioning room.
574
00:45:13,315 --> 00:45:15,150
These people
have been suffering, being saved,
575
00:45:15,234 --> 00:45:16,318
suffering and being saved.
576
00:45:16,401 --> 00:45:18,821
They were broken at so many points,
577
00:45:18,904 --> 00:45:21,406
and it'd be stranger
if they didn't complain.
578
00:45:36,171 --> 00:45:38,173
[exciting music playing]
579
00:45:39,508 --> 00:45:40,634
[narrator] "In the morning
580
00:45:40,717 --> 00:45:43,387
there was a layer of dew around the camp."
581
00:45:44,721 --> 00:45:46,473
"When the dew was gone,
582
00:45:46,557 --> 00:45:51,270
thin flakes like frost on the ground
appeared on the desert floor."
583
00:45:53,272 --> 00:45:58,652
"The Lord said, 'I will rain down bread
from heaven for you.'"
584
00:46:02,406 --> 00:46:05,075
[Kirsch] The Israelites complain
that they're hungry,
585
00:46:05,158 --> 00:46:10,122
and God performs a miracle
by sending down manna from heaven.
586
00:46:11,623 --> 00:46:13,625
Scientists have told us
587
00:46:13,709 --> 00:46:17,296
that there is a species of plant lice
588
00:46:17,379 --> 00:46:20,340
that feed on the tamarisk tree,
589
00:46:20,424 --> 00:46:22,384
which is present in Sinai.
590
00:46:22,467 --> 00:46:26,638
And they exude a resinous substance
591
00:46:26,722 --> 00:46:30,225
that's sweet to the taste
and white in appearance.
592
00:46:34,146 --> 00:46:35,689
It's on the plants.
593
00:46:36,315 --> 00:46:39,151
It can be gathered, dried,
made into bread.
594
00:46:43,113 --> 00:46:44,239
He has spoken.
595
00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:50,495
In the Sinai experience,
or the wilderness experience,
596
00:46:51,121 --> 00:46:52,080
uh… [chuckles]
597
00:46:52,915 --> 00:46:55,042
…I think we see the maternal side of God
598
00:46:55,876 --> 00:47:00,047
because women were the ones
who changed agricultural materials
599
00:47:00,130 --> 00:47:01,924
into edible form.
600
00:47:02,674 --> 00:47:05,052
See, brother? A sign.
601
00:47:07,721 --> 00:47:11,516
We have God the warrior
in the signs and wonders,
602
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:13,477
and fighting the Pharaoh's armies.
603
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:18,273
And now, um, metaphorically, at least,
we have God the mother, providing.
604
00:47:21,526 --> 00:47:22,778
[man] Stop!
605
00:47:22,861 --> 00:47:24,863
[people clamoring angrily]
606
00:47:26,114 --> 00:47:28,325
[Zipporah] I said, stop!
This is not the way!
607
00:47:28,408 --> 00:47:30,160
-[man] Let it go! Stop!
-[Zipporah] Stop!
608
00:47:30,243 --> 00:47:32,704
[clamor continues]
609
00:47:32,788 --> 00:47:34,998
[man 2] Selfish. Selfish man.
610
00:47:36,291 --> 00:47:37,250
[Zipporah] Back!
611
00:47:38,377 --> 00:47:39,419
Stop it!
612
00:47:41,046 --> 00:47:42,172
[woman] How dare you?
613
00:47:42,255 --> 00:47:46,051
David and Amram have been hoarding.
Now there's not enough to go around.
614
00:47:48,178 --> 00:47:49,304
Took it to barter.
615
00:47:51,181 --> 00:47:53,225
It's good for two days, no more.
616
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,692
God blessed us with His bounty,
and this is how you repay Him?
617
00:48:07,072 --> 00:48:09,408
Throw them out.
Let them fend for themselves.
618
00:48:12,411 --> 00:48:15,622
No, stop! Stop. Stop. Stop.
619
00:48:16,623 --> 00:48:17,499
Do as I say.
620
00:48:17,582 --> 00:48:19,376
[Zipporah sighing]
621
00:48:19,459 --> 00:48:21,628
Anger has undone you before.
622
00:48:22,754 --> 00:48:25,007
God has been compassionate.
623
00:48:25,507 --> 00:48:26,967
Let us be too.
624
00:48:34,016 --> 00:48:35,434
She's right, brother.
625
00:48:37,269 --> 00:48:38,687
What would He want from us?
626
00:48:39,187 --> 00:48:40,605
How can you ask me that,
627
00:48:41,481 --> 00:48:43,483
when it's all my heart has ever sought?
628
00:48:43,567 --> 00:48:45,485
Then let your mind seek it too.
629
00:48:56,580 --> 00:48:57,789
[Einhorn] You cannot learn
630
00:48:57,873 --> 00:49:00,459
until you nullify
everything you've learned before.
631
00:49:01,126 --> 00:49:03,962
So to me, the wilderness is not
about a place of predatory animals.
632
00:49:04,046 --> 00:49:06,048
It's a space of nil.
633
00:49:07,215 --> 00:49:10,218
It's-- It's nothing.
There's nothing there.
634
00:49:10,302 --> 00:49:13,388
Are there enemies? Are there threats?
Yes, there's gonna be all that.
635
00:49:13,472 --> 00:49:14,639
But that's not the point.
636
00:49:14,723 --> 00:49:18,477
The point is that the lesson and values
of what I need to teach you,
637
00:49:18,560 --> 00:49:20,103
it cannot happen in Egypt.
638
00:49:20,187 --> 00:49:21,313
Too much history there.
639
00:49:21,396 --> 00:49:23,398
Can't happen in Israel. Too much to build.
640
00:49:24,399 --> 00:49:26,318
And I think that's what the wilderness is.
641
00:49:26,818 --> 00:49:28,195
Children of Israel.
642
00:49:29,404 --> 00:49:32,365
For five days,
we gather food every morning.
643
00:49:33,408 --> 00:49:35,285
Only what we need for that day.
644
00:49:38,830 --> 00:49:40,123
And on the sixth day…
645
00:49:42,626 --> 00:49:46,546
on the sixth day we gather enough
so we can rest on the seventh.
646
00:49:49,591 --> 00:49:53,136
We were made in God's image.
647
00:49:53,804 --> 00:49:56,014
And on the seventh day, we rest. Yes?
648
00:49:56,098 --> 00:49:56,932
Yes.
649
00:49:57,682 --> 00:49:58,683
Yes.
650
00:50:03,063 --> 00:50:03,897
A holy day.
651
00:50:09,694 --> 00:50:10,612
A day…
652
00:50:12,697 --> 00:50:15,200
to remind ourselves
of how much we owe Him.
653
00:50:21,873 --> 00:50:22,958
Let this be law.
654
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:26,920
The Sabbath is
a really interesting institution,
655
00:50:27,003 --> 00:50:30,715
as we think about the ancient
Israelites and the biblical world.
656
00:50:30,799 --> 00:50:33,593
As far as we know,
there is nothing like it
657
00:50:33,677 --> 00:50:36,429
in any of the other cultures
around ancient Israel.
658
00:50:36,513 --> 00:50:40,392
So in that sense, I guess we could
call it an Israelite invention.
659
00:50:43,311 --> 00:50:47,190
[Enns] The first reference to Sabbath
is in Exodus 16,
660
00:50:47,274 --> 00:50:49,734
with the "Gathering of the manna."
661
00:50:49,818 --> 00:50:54,072
Like on the day-- the sixth day,
gather twice as much.
662
00:50:54,156 --> 00:50:58,451
And rest on the seventh day
just like God did.
663
00:51:01,288 --> 00:51:02,706
[Einhorn] There's a phrase we use.
664
00:51:02,789 --> 00:51:06,293
"More than the Jews have kept the Sabbath,
the Sabbath has kept the Jews."
665
00:51:06,376 --> 00:51:08,920
This is exactly
what the people needed at that point.
666
00:51:09,004 --> 00:51:11,715
God, through Moses,
needed to declare a point where he says,
667
00:51:11,798 --> 00:51:13,425
"Just stop. No more labor."
668
00:51:13,508 --> 00:51:15,510
"Take stock of what you have,
count your blessings."
669
00:51:15,594 --> 00:51:18,805
"If you'd be present and realize
there's nothing wrong in the moment,
670
00:51:19,389 --> 00:51:20,265
we can make it."
671
00:51:21,224 --> 00:51:22,893
[dramatic music playing]
672
00:51:23,810 --> 00:51:27,147
[narrator] Having survived starvation
and the wrath of Pharaoh,
673
00:51:27,647 --> 00:51:33,111
the Israelites soon face a new enemy
on the journey south to Mount Sinai.
674
00:51:37,365 --> 00:51:38,408
We're not alone.
675
00:51:38,491 --> 00:51:39,826
[distant horses neighing]
676
00:51:43,663 --> 00:51:44,956
Desert people.
677
00:51:45,624 --> 00:51:47,000
This is their land.
678
00:51:50,795 --> 00:51:57,135
Many of the people of the ancient
Near East were not Israelites,
679
00:51:57,219 --> 00:51:59,346
and were enemies of the Israelites.
680
00:51:59,888 --> 00:52:03,600
A good example is the Amalekites.
681
00:52:06,353 --> 00:52:07,854
[screaming]
682
00:52:10,398 --> 00:52:13,068
Go! Go! Go! Moses!
683
00:52:15,028 --> 00:52:16,029
Bandits!
684
00:52:16,947 --> 00:52:18,698
They crept up on us in the dark.
685
00:52:18,782 --> 00:52:20,951
We fought them off,
but there were too many of them.
686
00:52:21,034 --> 00:52:22,535
Women and children were taken.
687
00:52:23,703 --> 00:52:24,788
I need more men.
688
00:52:27,707 --> 00:52:30,502
Amalekites. Slave traders.
689
00:52:32,170 --> 00:52:34,005
We camp here. Give the order.
690
00:52:34,589 --> 00:52:36,258
Let's get our people back.
691
00:52:42,305 --> 00:52:43,556
[thunder rumbling]
692
00:52:46,935 --> 00:52:48,561
[women exclaiming faintly]
693
00:52:48,645 --> 00:52:50,647
[tense music playing]
694
00:52:59,656 --> 00:53:02,075
[Joshua softly] Quickly.
Quickly into position.
695
00:53:07,956 --> 00:53:13,128
[Enns] So the Israelites, did they leave
with swords and shields and arrows,
696
00:53:13,211 --> 00:53:17,549
and like, how could they wage war
against the Amalekites?
697
00:53:18,550 --> 00:53:21,261
This is actually
a very ancient Jewish midrash
698
00:53:21,344 --> 00:53:25,348
that says basically they picked clean
699
00:53:25,932 --> 00:53:29,102
the Egyptian soldiers
who died in the Red Sea,
700
00:53:29,185 --> 00:53:31,187
and their bodies
were washed up on the shore,
701
00:53:31,271 --> 00:53:32,939
and they pilfered their stuff.
702
00:53:33,023 --> 00:53:36,401
Which is a great answer.
It's not what the Bible says.
703
00:53:36,484 --> 00:53:40,113
The Bible says nothing,
but you wonder, "How did this happen?"
704
00:53:40,196 --> 00:53:41,698
[dramatic music playing]
705
00:53:41,781 --> 00:53:43,033
My Lord…
706
00:53:46,328 --> 00:53:48,121
lead your children to victory.
707
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:53,460
[thunder cracks]
708
00:53:53,543 --> 00:53:57,547
[Adelman] God says,
"I brought you out of Egypt
709
00:53:57,630 --> 00:54:03,136
with an outstretched arm
and a strong hand."
710
00:54:04,679 --> 00:54:06,681
[men shouting]
711
00:54:10,769 --> 00:54:14,564
And Moses' arms are doing exactly that.
712
00:54:14,647 --> 00:54:16,024
[high-pitched ringing]
713
00:54:16,107 --> 00:54:18,026
[shouting]
714
00:54:21,196 --> 00:54:23,573
[Adelman] He functions as a symbol.
715
00:54:23,656 --> 00:54:25,158
As a conduit.
716
00:54:28,078 --> 00:54:29,496
[woman] Joshua!
717
00:54:29,579 --> 00:54:30,497
We're over here.
718
00:54:31,456 --> 00:54:32,332
They're here!
719
00:54:34,417 --> 00:54:38,505
And as long as their eyes
are cast towards heaven,
720
00:54:38,588 --> 00:54:40,924
then they succeed in battle.
721
00:54:42,550 --> 00:54:44,135
[Joshua] Hurry, stay close to me.
722
00:54:45,887 --> 00:54:48,181
[Adelman] And if they don't,
then they fail.
723
00:54:49,474 --> 00:54:50,308
Quickly!
724
00:54:52,769 --> 00:54:54,479
[narrator] Moses grows weary.
725
00:54:56,356 --> 00:54:58,400
[music ends abruptly]
726
00:54:59,901 --> 00:55:01,528
[men shouting in distance]
727
00:55:01,611 --> 00:55:03,988
But his arms remain steady.
728
00:55:04,072 --> 00:55:06,074
[cheering]
729
00:55:07,242 --> 00:55:08,993
[triumphant music playing]
730
00:55:09,077 --> 00:55:10,412
[ululating]
731
00:55:13,915 --> 00:55:17,502
The Israelites
emerge victorious from the fight.
732
00:55:31,975 --> 00:55:33,977
[upbeat music playing]
733
00:55:50,493 --> 00:55:52,620
[clamoring]
734
00:56:01,629 --> 00:56:04,883
-Aaron, what is it?
-They're fighting over spoils.
735
00:56:05,467 --> 00:56:09,053
Enough! Enough! Enough!
736
00:56:10,555 --> 00:56:14,017
The next man who strikes a blow dies!
737
00:56:16,603 --> 00:56:17,604
Dies!
738
00:56:19,564 --> 00:56:21,191
[solemn music rising]
739
00:56:21,274 --> 00:56:23,276
Remember who we are!
740
00:56:28,490 --> 00:56:29,616
A nation!
741
00:56:30,867 --> 00:56:33,077
A nation of the faithful!
742
00:56:36,039 --> 00:56:36,956
Move!
743
00:57:01,231 --> 00:57:03,066
[sighing]
744
00:57:03,149 --> 00:57:04,817
How do I lead such a people?
745
00:57:05,318 --> 00:57:06,986
Walk with them in love.
746
00:57:08,071 --> 00:57:09,656
And if I don't find it?
747
00:57:09,739 --> 00:57:11,658
Then the fault lies with you.
748
00:57:14,410 --> 00:57:16,996
Love was torn from us
as children, remember?
749
00:57:19,165 --> 00:57:20,041
[Miriam scoffs]
750
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:24,045
Love alone would have never taken us
out of Egypt.
751
00:57:25,421 --> 00:57:27,799
[solemn music playing]
752
00:57:40,103 --> 00:57:44,232
The wandering in the wilderness story
is basically about this ragtag group of…
753
00:57:45,775 --> 00:57:51,281
deeply traumatized and scarred
and dysfunctional freed slaves,
754
00:57:52,073 --> 00:57:54,033
uh, stumbling through.
755
00:57:54,117 --> 00:57:56,119
[rousing music playing]
756
00:57:56,828 --> 00:57:59,956
[Kang] Part of the lesson is,
God may give you a vision.
757
00:58:00,039 --> 00:58:01,708
God may give you a dream.
758
00:58:03,251 --> 00:58:06,629
More often than not,
it's not gonna actually materialize
759
00:58:06,713 --> 00:58:08,840
the way that you want it to,
760
00:58:08,923 --> 00:58:10,717
but it'll be something better.
761
00:58:13,803 --> 00:58:16,097
People of God
were expecting the Promised Land,
762
00:58:16,180 --> 00:58:18,600
and they thought
they got an express ticket.
763
00:58:18,683 --> 00:58:19,517
But no.
764
00:58:19,601 --> 00:58:23,896
There are things that need
to be worked on the inside, uh,
765
00:58:23,980 --> 00:58:26,733
before I take you to the outside places.
766
00:58:29,068 --> 00:58:32,822
Israel moves from one form of servitude
to another form of servitude,
767
00:58:32,905 --> 00:58:34,324
which is to Yahweh.
768
00:58:34,407 --> 00:58:38,369
The goal of the Exodus story
is not, "Be free."
769
00:58:40,413 --> 00:58:42,999
It's, "Go to the mountain to worship God."
770
00:58:47,295 --> 00:58:49,881
"Get the Commandments to get the law
771
00:58:49,964 --> 00:58:52,717
so you know how to act
and so you know how to worship."
772
00:58:54,969 --> 00:58:58,056
They still have
the spiritual struggle to endure.
773
00:58:58,139 --> 00:59:00,224
Even though they've been
politically liberated,
774
00:59:00,308 --> 00:59:03,603
they still have the task
of being spiritually liberated.
775
00:59:07,857 --> 00:59:09,859
[excited chatter]
776
00:59:20,411 --> 00:59:23,331
I've come to speak with Him.
To find Him again.
777
00:59:26,834 --> 00:59:29,087
[Jethro] I have seen you this way before.
778
00:59:32,423 --> 00:59:34,550
I cannot lead my people without God.
779
00:59:36,886 --> 00:59:40,264
How do I walk with them and search for Him
at one and the same time?
780
00:59:44,519 --> 00:59:45,645
Many years ago,
781
00:59:46,604 --> 00:59:48,398
you took my sheep to pasture
782
00:59:49,524 --> 00:59:52,402
so I could be free
and attend to my people.
783
00:59:52,485 --> 00:59:54,487
[soothing music playing]
784
00:59:55,279 --> 00:59:57,156
You were a good servant.
785
00:59:58,700 --> 01:00:00,118
You have servants too.
786
01:00:01,703 --> 01:00:04,956
Choose them wisely. Use them.
787
01:00:06,374 --> 01:00:11,003
And then you may go to Him
in good conscience
788
01:00:11,796 --> 01:00:13,047
and ask for his help.
789
01:00:14,590 --> 01:00:16,426
[Harris] Jethro shows up again.
790
01:00:16,509 --> 01:00:19,804
And then he watches Moses
conducting business
791
01:00:19,887 --> 01:00:23,933
and receiving all of these
different people who have disputes,
792
01:00:24,016 --> 01:00:26,728
and Moses is the only judge and jury.
793
01:00:26,811 --> 01:00:31,023
And Jethro sees him doing this,
and Jethro tells him,
794
01:00:31,107 --> 01:00:33,317
"You can't carry on like this."
795
01:00:33,401 --> 01:00:35,570
"You're going to burn yourself out."
796
01:00:35,653 --> 01:00:38,322
And then Jethro says to him,
"Here's what you need to do."
797
01:00:38,406 --> 01:00:41,534
And he describes to him
how to set up a system of courts.
798
01:00:41,617 --> 01:00:44,078
Jethro is, in my view,
799
01:00:44,871 --> 01:00:46,998
this wonderful example
800
01:00:47,081 --> 01:00:51,085
of how somebody who is not Jewish
801
01:00:51,169 --> 01:00:53,838
brings the best ideas
802
01:00:53,921 --> 01:00:58,718
and insights of his religious
traditions to help.
803
01:00:59,385 --> 01:01:03,848
And Moses is smart enough
to accept the wisdom,
804
01:01:03,931 --> 01:01:07,477
even though it comes
from a different culture.
805
01:01:09,771 --> 01:01:10,897
[Moses] It's still here.
806
01:01:20,698 --> 01:01:22,200
The story of our life.
807
01:01:24,994 --> 01:01:26,037
[sighs heavily]
808
01:01:26,913 --> 01:01:28,456
How does it end, I wonder?
809
01:01:32,043 --> 01:01:33,377
[thunder rumbling]
810
01:01:35,004 --> 01:01:36,756
I must go and seek his help.
811
01:01:38,633 --> 01:01:39,592
You will.
812
01:02:00,112 --> 01:02:03,324
Tell the story to our children
so they understand.
813
01:02:07,078 --> 01:02:07,912
Go.
814
01:02:18,089 --> 01:02:24,178
[narrator] Once again, Moses ascends
the great mountain to speak with God.
815
01:02:31,018 --> 01:02:33,020
[thunder rumbling]
816
01:02:37,233 --> 01:02:41,404
"There was thunder and lightning
with a thick cloud over the mountain."
817
01:02:43,114 --> 01:02:45,783
"Mount Sinai was covered with smoke
818
01:02:45,867 --> 01:02:49,203
because the Lord
descended on him in fire."
819
01:02:50,413 --> 01:02:54,166
"The smoke billowed up from it
like smoke from a furnace,
820
01:02:54,250 --> 01:02:58,296
and the whole mountain
trembled violently."
821
01:02:58,963 --> 01:03:00,464
[wind howling]
822
01:03:00,548 --> 01:03:02,550
[thunder cracking]
823
01:03:11,142 --> 01:03:12,226
Where are you?
824
01:03:14,729 --> 01:03:16,981
I came all this way to find you!
825
01:03:18,900 --> 01:03:20,151
Speak to me!
826
01:03:23,905 --> 01:03:25,406
Are you finished with me?
827
01:03:26,365 --> 01:03:27,950
I'm not finished with you!
828
01:03:29,827 --> 01:03:30,953
Do you hear me?
829
01:03:43,299 --> 01:03:45,009
I don't know what to do, God.
830
01:03:46,844 --> 01:03:48,387
I don't know where to go.
831
01:03:49,138 --> 01:03:50,431
I'm lost without you.
832
01:03:57,063 --> 01:03:59,857
[Yahweh] I bore you on eagles' wings
833
01:03:59,941 --> 01:04:01,734
and brought you to myself.
834
01:04:02,443 --> 01:04:05,947
If you will obey my voice
and keep my covenant,
835
01:04:06,030 --> 01:04:11,410
then you shall be to me
a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
836
01:04:12,495 --> 01:04:16,666
These are the words which
you shall speak to the children of Israel.
837
01:04:21,837 --> 01:04:23,297
[narrator] Weeks pass.
838
01:04:26,175 --> 01:04:30,972
The Israelites wait in the shadow
of Mount Sinai for Moses' return.
839
01:04:32,348 --> 01:04:34,350
[uneasy music playing]
840
01:04:49,198 --> 01:04:51,575
For 40 days and nights he has been gone.
841
01:04:54,704 --> 01:04:55,788
He will return.
842
01:05:08,968 --> 01:05:11,387
[Einhorn] These are a people
who live with so much uncertainty.
843
01:05:11,470 --> 01:05:14,432
For the first time, their leader
is not in front of their face.
844
01:05:14,515 --> 01:05:16,100
The person who's taken them out,
845
01:05:16,183 --> 01:05:18,644
who has served really
as the father of the nation,
846
01:05:19,311 --> 01:05:20,438
he's not there.
847
01:05:20,521 --> 01:05:22,982
And they look up,
and there's this experience
848
01:05:23,065 --> 01:05:25,901
that is so awesome and-- and so scary.
849
01:05:25,985 --> 01:05:28,946
When you don't know where tomorrow…
or how you're gonna survive,
850
01:05:29,030 --> 01:05:30,740
or what's gonna happen going forward,
851
01:05:30,823 --> 01:05:33,075
that's when you could do
a lot of bad stuff.
852
01:05:33,159 --> 01:05:35,161
[unsettling music playing]
853
01:05:44,754 --> 01:05:45,838
[Aaron] What's this?
854
01:05:46,881 --> 01:05:50,426
We need a god who others recognize.
855
01:05:50,509 --> 01:05:52,553
A god like other gods.
856
01:05:52,636 --> 01:05:54,221
We have Egyptian gold.
857
01:05:55,056 --> 01:05:58,851
Before we leave, we will melt it down
and make a god that will protect us.
858
01:05:58,934 --> 01:06:00,394
Moses has protected us.
859
01:06:03,147 --> 01:06:06,400
Do you truly believe
your brother is still alive?
860
01:06:09,403 --> 01:06:10,446
Do you?
861
01:06:20,498 --> 01:06:22,333
You are the firstborn brother.
862
01:06:24,418 --> 01:06:26,754
It is time to reclaim your position.
863
01:06:35,387 --> 01:06:37,765
[music swells]
864
01:06:46,607 --> 01:06:48,567
[Moses hammering chisel]
865
01:06:57,743 --> 01:06:59,578
[narrator] "And Aaron said to them,
866
01:06:59,662 --> 01:07:04,083
'Break off the golden earrings
which are in the ears of your wives,
867
01:07:04,166 --> 01:07:07,878
your sons, and your daughters,
and bring them to me.'"
868
01:07:12,299 --> 01:07:15,511
"And he received the gold from their hand,
869
01:07:15,594 --> 01:07:18,597
and he fashioned it with an engraving tool
870
01:07:19,098 --> 01:07:21,267
and made a molded calf."
871
01:07:25,479 --> 01:07:29,650
Remember, it is the disobedience
that causes the plagues back in Egypt.
872
01:07:29,733 --> 01:07:33,237
But it's the disobedience of the people
on the other side of the wilderness
873
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,489
where they construct this god…
874
01:07:36,532 --> 01:07:40,077
It's that disobedience
that caused them to take a journey
875
01:07:40,161 --> 01:07:42,746
that should not have been
any more than ten days
876
01:07:42,830 --> 01:07:44,665
to last 40 years.
877
01:07:54,008 --> 01:07:58,679
[Kirsch] Aaron, who is Moses' own brother
and the high priest of Israel,
878
01:07:58,762 --> 01:08:01,056
he's the one who makes the golden calf
879
01:08:01,140 --> 01:08:04,393
because he feels, uh, threatened
880
01:08:04,476 --> 01:08:08,397
by the uproar among the Israelites.
881
01:08:08,480 --> 01:08:12,860
So just to calm them down,
he makes them this god.
882
01:08:14,111 --> 01:08:16,113
[men hammering]
883
01:08:20,951 --> 01:08:21,869
[grunts]
884
01:08:25,289 --> 01:08:27,291
[dramatic music playing]
885
01:08:28,083 --> 01:08:31,420
Famously, Moses descends from Sinai
886
01:08:31,503 --> 01:08:35,424
at the very moment they're offering
worship to the golden calf.
887
01:08:37,635 --> 01:08:39,762
It's heartbreaking.
888
01:08:39,845 --> 01:08:41,847
[panting]
889
01:08:49,355 --> 01:08:50,231
It's Moses.
890
01:08:50,314 --> 01:08:52,524
[Israelites murmuring]
891
01:08:52,608 --> 01:08:54,526
[music swells]
892
01:08:54,610 --> 01:08:56,111
-Moses!
-Moses!
893
01:08:57,988 --> 01:08:59,240
Moses!
894
01:08:59,740 --> 01:09:00,741
Moses!
895
01:09:16,173 --> 01:09:17,007
[Miriam] Moses.
896
01:09:36,151 --> 01:09:37,027
Nothing.
897
01:09:38,821 --> 01:09:40,447
All for nothing.
898
01:10:03,095 --> 01:10:06,098
Moses, he's so appalled and so outraged,
899
01:10:06,181 --> 01:10:10,477
he takes the two tablets on which
the Ten Commandments have been written
900
01:10:11,061 --> 01:10:12,271
and smashes them.
901
01:10:12,938 --> 01:10:14,565
Anger control issues.
902
01:10:14,648 --> 01:10:18,277
That is a theme
that you see throughout Moses' life.
903
01:10:20,571 --> 01:10:24,783
[Harris] This struggle with anger
is something that we can learn a lot from.
904
01:10:26,452 --> 01:10:30,914
Moses is somebody
who loses his cool, lashes out,
905
01:10:31,540 --> 01:10:36,879
and then has to figure out
how to pick up the pieces again.
906
01:10:41,175 --> 01:10:42,009
Help me.
907
01:10:59,234 --> 01:11:00,152
What are they?
908
01:11:06,533 --> 01:11:07,493
[Moses] The answer.
909
01:11:09,870 --> 01:11:11,205
He answered my call.
910
01:11:13,999 --> 01:11:16,126
And he gave me his greatest gift.
911
01:11:19,380 --> 01:11:20,255
His laws.
912
01:11:23,884 --> 01:11:24,718
And you…
913
01:11:27,179 --> 01:11:29,390
all of you broke my heart.
914
01:11:33,769 --> 01:11:34,978
So I broke them too.
915
01:11:36,730 --> 01:11:38,816
To change days past…
916
01:11:40,901 --> 01:11:42,653
one needs forgiveness.
917
01:11:43,779 --> 01:11:44,738
Remember?
918
01:11:45,531 --> 01:11:46,490
Leave me.
919
01:11:50,119 --> 01:11:51,078
Now.
920
01:12:10,973 --> 01:12:12,975
[whispering] What have I done, my Lord?
921
01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:17,479
Go away.
922
01:12:23,318 --> 01:12:24,319
My Lord.
923
01:12:28,949 --> 01:12:30,576
I have failed you, my Lord.
924
01:12:31,452 --> 01:12:32,911
[Yahweh] It is time.
925
01:12:33,745 --> 01:12:36,957
I let loose a flood once
and spared only Noah.
926
01:12:37,458 --> 01:12:41,378
I could let loose fire this time
and spare only you.
927
01:12:41,462 --> 01:12:44,298
To burn them? Burn them all?
928
01:12:45,591 --> 01:12:46,717
But my Lord,
929
01:12:48,093 --> 01:12:51,763
we might have gone to the Promised Land
if you had not led me this way.
930
01:12:52,973 --> 01:12:56,935
-None of this would have happened.
-What point in reaching the Promised Land
931
01:12:57,019 --> 01:12:59,146
if you do not know how to live there?
932
01:12:59,855 --> 01:13:02,941
You may have freedom,
but you cannot keep it without truth.
933
01:13:04,318 --> 01:13:05,986
We will begin anew.
934
01:13:06,069 --> 01:13:07,070
No!
935
01:13:08,739 --> 01:13:11,950
Forgive them. Forgive us. Forgive me.
936
01:13:13,911 --> 01:13:14,745
Forgive.
937
01:13:27,382 --> 01:13:28,675
[Enns] Once again, God's had it.
938
01:13:28,759 --> 01:13:32,221
"I'm gonna kill everybody,
and I'll just start over with you."
939
01:13:32,304 --> 01:13:34,097
And Moses talks him out of it.
940
01:13:34,181 --> 01:13:38,310
Like, that's rash. Think about this.
What will the Egyptians say?
941
01:13:38,393 --> 01:13:40,604
You brought us out
into the desert just to kill us?
942
01:13:40,687 --> 01:13:42,314
[grave music playing]
943
01:13:55,202 --> 01:13:56,286
Let him go.
944
01:13:59,289 --> 01:14:00,666
They rebelled against you.
945
01:14:01,959 --> 01:14:02,793
Against God.
946
01:14:02,876 --> 01:14:04,002
Let them go.
947
01:14:05,837 --> 01:14:07,047
They deserve to die.
948
01:14:09,174 --> 01:14:11,426
We should make them
an example to the others.
949
01:14:11,510 --> 01:14:13,971
You should not commit murder.
950
01:14:15,389 --> 01:14:16,473
This is the law.
951
01:14:17,099 --> 01:14:17,975
What law?
952
01:14:20,811 --> 01:14:22,896
The one I destroyed. Let him go.
953
01:14:41,707 --> 01:14:43,625
Recite the laws to us, Moses.
954
01:14:44,710 --> 01:14:46,670
Let us recite them to one another
955
01:14:47,963 --> 01:14:49,756
until we no longer need to.
956
01:14:53,176 --> 01:14:55,178
Because the laws will be written in us.
957
01:14:59,391 --> 01:15:04,563
You should not make any graven images.
958
01:15:09,610 --> 01:15:12,863
You should not have another God before me.
959
01:15:17,909 --> 01:15:21,580
You should not take the name
of the Lord thy God in vain.
960
01:15:34,009 --> 01:15:35,344
You shall not covet.
961
01:15:45,437 --> 01:15:46,605
You should not…
962
01:16:06,375 --> 01:16:10,545
What really alienated
the children of Israel in the wilderness
963
01:16:10,629 --> 01:16:11,963
was the lack of covenant.
964
01:16:12,047 --> 01:16:16,093
And the reason they remained
in the wilderness as long as they did
965
01:16:16,176 --> 01:16:17,678
was to seal the covenant.
966
01:16:18,428 --> 01:16:23,058
God could have taken them to Canaan land
at any point, but they were not ready.
967
01:16:28,105 --> 01:16:30,023
[Moses] Remember the Sabbath day
968
01:16:31,441 --> 01:16:32,734
and keep it holy.
969
01:16:34,111 --> 01:16:35,987
Honor your father and mother.
970
01:16:38,198 --> 01:16:41,284
You shall not commit adultery.
971
01:16:49,334 --> 01:16:52,045
You shall not bear false witness.
972
01:16:52,129 --> 01:16:55,173
[Meyers] The Bible never uses
the word "commandments."
973
01:16:55,257 --> 01:16:58,343
It does say ten, but there are ten things,
974
01:16:58,427 --> 01:17:02,055
ten d'varim, ten issues, ten precepts.
975
01:17:02,139 --> 01:17:08,353
The first five deal with
the human relationship to God.
976
01:17:08,437 --> 01:17:10,564
You shall have no other gods before me.
977
01:17:11,064 --> 01:17:13,692
You should not take
the name of God in vain.
978
01:17:13,775 --> 01:17:16,903
The last five commandments are social.
979
01:17:16,987 --> 01:17:20,782
They're about people
getting along with each other,
980
01:17:20,866 --> 01:17:22,409
doing right by each other.
981
01:17:23,118 --> 01:17:28,498
You shall not covet your neighbor's house
or anything that is your neighbor's.
982
01:17:28,582 --> 01:17:30,834
[Einhorn] God says,
"You cannot be left without structure."
983
01:17:30,917 --> 01:17:33,587
"That's not the point.
I didn't take you out to become nothing."
984
01:17:33,670 --> 01:17:35,380
"I took you out to become something."
985
01:17:35,464 --> 01:17:38,925
"And therefore these laws
are the beginning of a moral code
986
01:17:39,009 --> 01:17:41,344
that is going to revolutionize
the entire world."
987
01:17:48,602 --> 01:17:50,604
[ethereal music rising]
988
01:17:53,106 --> 01:17:53,940
[Moses] Mother?
989
01:18:09,998 --> 01:18:12,167
[echoing] Why are you sad, Moses?
990
01:18:16,713 --> 01:18:18,215
For all I've done wrong.
991
01:18:24,221 --> 01:18:26,890
For all I still have left to do.
992
01:18:28,183 --> 01:18:29,684
You have done well.
993
01:18:30,227 --> 01:18:32,562
[women ululating]
994
01:18:36,608 --> 01:18:40,278
You brought them out of Egypt
as God asked you to.
995
01:18:42,781 --> 01:18:45,826
You gave them laws to live by.
996
01:18:48,954 --> 01:18:50,413
You gave them life.
997
01:18:58,296 --> 01:19:00,006
What more
998
01:19:01,591 --> 01:19:04,177
would you ask of yourself?
999
01:19:06,429 --> 01:19:09,975
I must lead them to the Promised Land.
1000
01:19:12,477 --> 01:19:14,563
They will get there on their own.
1001
01:19:17,566 --> 01:19:18,400
Without you.
1002
01:19:22,696 --> 01:19:25,740
[Enns] The three big players
in this story,
1003
01:19:25,824 --> 01:19:27,409
Moses, Aaron, and Miriam,
1004
01:19:28,034 --> 01:19:32,914
um, they don't make it
to the Promised Land.
1005
01:19:35,500 --> 01:19:36,668
Come.
1006
01:19:39,421 --> 01:19:42,799
[Kirsch] The single most poignant
and tragic moment, I would argue,
1007
01:19:42,883 --> 01:19:45,677
in all of the Bible is that Moses,
1008
01:19:45,760 --> 01:19:48,638
who has been charged with God
1009
01:19:48,722 --> 01:19:53,310
to perform this difficult, dangerous task,
1010
01:19:53,393 --> 01:19:57,397
led the Israelites
through the desert for 40 years
1011
01:19:57,480 --> 01:20:02,444
and faithfully performs
that task to completion,
1012
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:08,116
but is not allowed to join the children
of Israel in the Promised Land.
1013
01:20:09,701 --> 01:20:10,869
It's heartbreaking.
1014
01:20:14,205 --> 01:20:15,498
Look, Moses.
1015
01:20:19,002 --> 01:20:20,003
There it is.
1016
01:20:21,463 --> 01:20:26,343
The denial of Moses
to enter the Promised Land
1017
01:20:26,426 --> 01:20:29,387
resonates with me
in a contemporary fashion
1018
01:20:29,471 --> 01:20:32,474
in the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
1019
01:20:34,517 --> 01:20:39,105
The night before he died,
he echoed the sentiments of Moses.
1020
01:20:39,189 --> 01:20:42,359
He said, "I've been to the mountaintop."
1021
01:20:42,442 --> 01:20:44,110
"I've seen the Promised Land."
1022
01:20:44,194 --> 01:20:46,738
"I may not get there with you,
but I'm here to tell you,
1023
01:20:46,821 --> 01:20:48,406
you will get to the Promised Land."
1024
01:20:48,490 --> 01:20:52,410
It is almost as though he was channeling
Moses in that moment.
1025
01:20:52,494 --> 01:20:54,454
And if the Moses story means anything,
1026
01:20:54,537 --> 01:20:57,707
and that is that even once
you reach Canaan,
1027
01:20:57,791 --> 01:21:01,252
even once you have freedom in name,
1028
01:21:01,336 --> 01:21:03,505
it still requires a struggle.
1029
01:21:03,588 --> 01:21:06,007
What it takes to get free
1030
01:21:06,091 --> 01:21:09,135
is different than what it takes
to stay free.
1031
01:21:11,346 --> 01:21:13,348
[epic music rising]
1032
01:21:16,977 --> 01:21:18,186
Promised Land.
1033
01:21:21,648 --> 01:21:23,400
And I will never get there.
1034
01:21:26,277 --> 01:21:27,112
No.
1035
01:21:29,781 --> 01:21:31,241
But your children will.
1036
01:21:33,368 --> 01:21:34,369
[Zipporah] Moses?
1037
01:21:39,290 --> 01:21:40,667
Come inside now.
1038
01:21:53,596 --> 01:21:54,431
Come.
1039
01:22:00,061 --> 01:22:02,772
[narrator] "And Moses,
the servant of the Lord,
1040
01:22:02,856 --> 01:22:06,067
died there in Moab, as the Lord had said."
1041
01:22:07,610 --> 01:22:11,948
"Since then, no prophet
has risen in Israel like Moses,
1042
01:22:12,032 --> 01:22:14,367
who the Lord knew face-to-face…
1043
01:22:16,494 --> 01:22:21,791
who did all those signs and wonders
the Lord sent him to do in Egypt,
1044
01:22:21,875 --> 01:22:26,379
to Pharaoh, to all his officials,
and to his whole land."
1045
01:22:28,548 --> 01:22:32,218
"For no one has ever shown
the mighty power
1046
01:22:32,302 --> 01:22:35,889
or performed the awesome deeds
that Moses did
1047
01:22:35,972 --> 01:22:38,725
in the sight of all Israel."
1048
01:22:48,943 --> 01:22:50,945
[solemn music playing]
1049
01:25:33,900 --> 01:25:35,902
[dramatic music playing]
1050
01:25:36,902 --> 01:25:56,902
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