In Egypt, Sethi dies, his last word being Moses's name.
God charges Moses to return to Egypt and free His chosen people. Moses sees the burning bush on the summit of Mount Sinai and hears the voice of God. While herding sheep in the desert Moses finds Joshua, who has escaped from the copper mines of Ezion-Geber that he was sent to after the death of Baka. Moses impresses Jethro and the other sheiks with his wise and just trading, and marries Jethro's eldest daughter Sephora (the Greek form of Zipporah used in the film). Moses finds a home in Midian with the girls' father Jethro, a Bedouin sheik, who reveals that he is a follower of "He who has no name," whom Moses recognizes as the God of Abraham. At the well, he defends seven sisters from Amalekites who try to push them away from the water.
Moses makes his way across the desert, nearly dying of hunger and thirst before he comes to a well in the land of Midian. Moses becomes a shepherd and marries Sephora in the land of Midian Moses is banished to the desert, but not before he receives the word that Yochabel had died before she delivered the piece of Levite cloth. Bithiah tells her brother Sethi the truth about Moses, and Sethi reluctantly orders his name stricken from all records and monuments. Moses tells Sethi that he is not the Deliverer, but would free the slaves if he could. Dathan uses the information to bargain with Rameses for Baka's house, a post as Governor of Goshen, and the ownership of the slave Lilia.īased on Dathan's information, Moses is arrested and brought before Sethi. Moses confesses to Joshua that he too is Hebrew the confession is witnessed by the ambitious Hebrew overseer Dathan. Joshua rescues Lilia but is captured himself Moses frees Joshua but strangles Baka. During this time the master builder Baka steals Lilia, who is engaged to the stonecutter Joshua. Nefertiri urges him to return to the palace, then he can help his people when he becomes pharaoh. Moses spends time working amongst the slaves to learn more of their lives. Bithiah evades his questions, but Moses follows her to the home of Yochabel and thus learns the truth. Moses goes to Bithiah to learn the truth. Nefretiri kills Memnet but reveals the story to Moses only after he finds the piece of Levite cloth he was wrapped in as a baby, which Memnet had kept. Nefretiri learns from the servant Memnet that Moses is the son of Hebrew slaves. Nefretiri learns from Memnet that Moses is the son of Hebrew slaves During this time, Rameses has been charged by Sethi, his father, with finding out whether there really is a Hebrew fitting the description of the Deliverer. Moses defends himself against the charges, arguing that he is simply making his workers more productive by making them stronger and happier and proves his point with the impressive progress he is making. Moses institutes numerous reforms concerning the treatment of the slaves on the project, and eventually Prince Rameses II charges Moses with planning an insurrection, pointing out that the slaves are calling Moses the "Deliverer" of prophecy. While working on the building of a treasure city for Pharaoh Sethi's jubilee, Moses meets the stonecutter Joshua, who tells him of the Hebrew God. Moses frees the elderly woman from her dangerous chore, not realizing that the elderly woman was his natural mother Yochabel.
An incident occurs when an elderly woman, who is greasing the ground for the pillar of stone to move easier, is almost crushed to death when her scarf gets caught under the slab of stone, prompting Moses to scold overseer Baka. Moses loves Nefretiri, who is the throne princess and must marry the next Pharaoh. The infant is rescued from the Nile by Bithiah, the Pharaoh's daughter, who decides to adopt the boy even though her servant Memnet recognizes that the child is Hebrew and protests.Īs a young man, Prince Moses becomes a successful general, claiming victory in a war with Ethiopia and then entering Egypt into an alliance with them.
Pharaoh Rameses I of Egypt has ordered the death of all firstborn Hebrew males, but a Hebrew woman named Yochabel sets her infant son adrift on the Nile in order to save him.