Original subtitles

[Music]

this is Moses

a man born under sentence of death every

son that is born shall be cast into the

river but who lived to be raised as a

prince in the Magnificent Court of the

most powerful Empire the world has ever

seen then he saw the sufferings of a

people a people deprived brutalized

enslaved and he chose to put off his

princely garments and become one of them

your name I'm an Israelite he suffered

long and bitterly I'm sick of you before

his people and the enemies of his people

saw in his eyes the light of God's Will

and heard in his voice the Thunder of

God's

[Music]

utterance he had to fight against the

weakness of man and the wickedness of

man before he found himself free to

change the whole course of our history

we must start again but above all he

taught men that they were free we are

free even to choose to enter into a

covenant with him this is Moses a man

like us with our weaknesses and doubts

but also with our hopes I would like to

cross the river Moses who spoke to God

in the high places

[Music]

oh

[Music]

[Music]

oh

[Music]

the Israelites dwelt in the land of

Canaan but drought and famine ravaged

the land and they went into

Egypt they prospered and the Israelite

Joseph was a prince of the

land now these are the names of the

children of Israel which came into Egypt

every man and his household came with

Jacob Reuben Simeon Levi and Judah

isachar zebulun and Benjamin Dan and

naftali Gad and Asher and all the souls

that came out of the loins of Jacob were

70 souls for Joseph was in Egypt

already and Joseph died and all his

Brethren and all that

[Music]

generation

and the children of Israel were fruitful

and increased abundantly and multiplied

and waxed exceedingly Mighty and the

land was filled with them is that Joseph

it could be Joseph is he a God he could

be a God the Egyptians had many

[Music]

gods now there arose up a new king over

Egypt which knew not Joseph and he said

unto his people behold the people of the

children of Israel are more and mightier

than we their men are bursting with

seed their women are round like

fruit their encampments are low with the

bleeding of

children they

multiply they

multiply Your Grace has some immed iate

danger in

mind War should there be war with some

alien people might not these aliens in

our midst to join with our enemies let

us defend ourselves before we are

attacked Your Divine majest is immediate

orders I specify nothing I say deal

wisely with them use immediate wisdom

are you of the tribe of Levi yes yes we

[Applause]

[Music]

are

[Applause]

[Music]

keep

[Applause]

moving

get

get

[Music]

you can't cram Us in here we're

Shepherds where keep moving we Shepherds

we live on the open Plains if you shut

us up here we'll die you won't die you

work so amram and his wife yoked and

their son Aaron and their daughter

Miriam entered the house of bondage and

yoked was Heavy with

child they were made to share quarters

with with people from other tribes the

children of Israel who had lived the

life of shepherds free in the free air

now they were

slaves therefore did they set over them

task Masters to afflict them and to

burden them and they were set to build

for the Pharaoh treasure cities and the

names of the cities were Pam and

Ramy

your feet get up

here

oh you go out and feed the animals and

Miriam you go help her that's a

good

[Music]

it's sinful to wear a thing like that an

Egyptian thing oh it's go it'sing me

what are you doing to her what are you

doing to her every day the same thing

Aaron won't show them their sinful ways

not Aaron but he

will ah so that's the way of it I

wondered I thought he would be born in

tabis in the tall Green Pastures there

we would have been there in 3 months the

third fullness of the Moon you say he

you both say that all babies are called

he before they're born and some of them

afterwards

too the sons of the men of the sand the

name diminishes them but they are not

diminished continue Majesty they came

out of the land of Canaan driven by

plague and famine in Egypt they sought

grain and pasture and found them both

they grow fat and multiply and are

become an immense multitude in order

that they may not in the event of War

Unite with our enemies without so is it

to written so shall our posterity read

it but the sentence is not yet

complete let me hear

wisdom this present mode of Oppression

is clearly

inefficacious as I see it the tribes of

Israel mingled together as they are lose

each its special code of law and

restraint constrained from above they

are grown loose

beneath adultery

leury

incest this zest for breeding it is the

mark of a slave race

animality they couple like the dogs of

the desert and

we we Glory instability

changelessness

power Along Comes the god of death and

says behold I am all these things

but the sentence remains unfinished let

the sentence now be

[Music]

pronounced every son that is born shall

be cast into the

river but every

daughter shall be saved

[Applause]

alive

[Applause]

[Music]

search all the

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

houses take the next

[Music]

the

[Music]

[Applause]

yeah

forgive me forgive me my love someone

may hear I trust no one my love my dear

love there's a stable near here you'll

be safe no one will know no one will see

come come

come

[Music]

be brave he must

live we safe

[Music]

here

[Music]

Mommy

[Music]

and the child was kept hidden from the

cruelty of the soldiers of the Pharaoh

but could not be kept hidden for long

[Music]

when does she come back your mother she

still has the fever she sends love and

greetings but begs no one to come near

her the fever is

[Music]

catching now Miriam the child's sister

had a plan of her own devising whereby

the baby might be saved from the hands

of the soldiers of the

Pharaoh can you

breathe

now the Pharaoh had a daughter the

princess bithes and she was Baron and

she would come down to the Nile to pray

to the gods of increase that she might

become a mother and so be

[Music]

blessed

[Music]

be brave be very brave you must live you

have a lot to

do

[Music]

[Music]

he

lord of the

river and of that

quicking

when of lowly things are brought to

birth bring Lord to

thy

the

off the

country that

she

[Music]

noted among the

lers of the

[Music]

Earth to the rank of the

mothers you the read

the pal and the pepp

tree from the crocodile

bre many

too strong as a

[Music]

chariot what is

that go and bring it to me quick before

the river takes it

again

[Music]

he

[Music]

who is he where does he come from he's

well fed have you seen all those rings

of fat why is he here who is his mother

the Nile is his father

anyway not

cry oh

of

the the

wind

strong but

Co

but out of the

[Music]

sea but night my love

[Music]

one

to

me he's

hungry he's a good baby he only cries

because he's

hungry who are you who let you in here

call the guards wait come here

girl do you know this child I am an

Israelite I know no men children the

Egyptians kill them at

Birth how do you know this child is a

boy do you know his mother I know many

mothers who weep for their sons and

whose breasts are heavy with milk you

can find me a nurse among the women of

the Israelites yes one Who Weeps bring

her for my son

for he is my

son and his father is the

Nile his name shall be Moses meaning my

son meaning in our

language I brought him

forth I am sorry that your little boy

died was

killed

we

mothers cannot easily

understand High State

policy we are the givers of

Life Daughters of the

son men turn their backs on the

sun to build

labyrinths away from the light

the

labyrinths breed strange

monsters these become the gods of

Darkness men love their dark

gods

[Music]

you will come back here in 4

hours you will be paid of

course each time you feed the child you

receive one of

these he

what is so special about her son why

should her child sa none of ours she

sold her child to the Egyptians for

[Music]

money Perhaps Perhaps what that old God

of Abraham is waking up after his long

sleep you

mean perhaps the child has been saved

not for his parents but for

us

[Music]

what name have they given him

Moses

Moses when he is done with your

breast he shall be holy

mine you will forget

him forget him

completely

whever and Moses was raised in the court

of the Pharaoh and learned the Arts and

the skills of a true Prince of

[Music]

Egypt

[Music]

the body is a mystery like the

heavens if we could turn for a moment

the skin the flesh to

Glass then we could see the wonders of

the streets of the city

Within

the streets are sometimes roaring

with evil

Invaders then we talk of a

sickness here are two roads that lead to

the Citadel of your

lungs if I could clear these infested

ways you'd be well

again does this help you

mother

they tell me that you love

wisdom but not all the

time your senses get in the

way you hear the Cry of the

bats and of the field

mice they say

Moses that you become

impatient

impatient

sometimes they say the wisdom of Egypt

is complete and sealed but there is no

new wisdom to be

learned the death of a man means more

than the birth of a child for what new

wisdom can a child bring to the world

Egypt looks to the

end the

closure the

seal you do not see things as an

Egyptian does as a true Egyptian

does they want

certainty

death is all all too certain if it's so

certain then why is it not more

simple it's expressed through so

many

gods Hawk faac dog-faced crocodile

toothed it's a Darkness crawling with

silent

monsters give me light

Moses light the

Torches the sun is not yet down

light them just the

same I fear the

dark I fear the

dark I will embark on a

boat whose name is the name of the god

of the Harvest of the

souls I am fed to the Western Bank of

the

river and there I find a secret way way

into the

Earth I am going to the

river and you were brought out of the

river the same

river

your

lips I

open in the God's

name that you may

speak and

eat your

eyes I open in the God's

name that light and sight

May bless

them you will raise your eyes to light

Eternal open your mouth in speech that

is

soundless since it is the soul

[Music]

speech you became my mother

out of your

goodness you leave me

motherless with the mother still yet to

find

farewell

[Music]

who is

it

Moses my Lord it is highness you must

call me cousin your highness I have been

searching for you all day and everywhere

that is not right my apologies your

highness

you promised to take me crocodile

hunting ah yes but I

reconsidered what would have happened to

me if the crocodiles had snapped and

eaten you and what would have happened

to the throne of Egypt you would have

taken it cousin I am angry with you no

do not be

angry not

now I have come to tell you sad news His

Highness is not to be given sad news

that is laid down my mother

is

dead your father's sister

dead like the 3,000 men who built the

Grain City and the Treasure

City yes there is only one way of being

dead you have forgotten Prince Mana the

thing for which your cousin was sent

here oh yes you are to go and see the

workers to see that they are building

right

I asked my father you see as a

punishment a punishment yes you wouldn't

take me crocodile

[Music]

hunting

work come on

[Music]

work

Oh Aaron could that be Moses is not this

man too ill to work he's not too ill for

work if he's still

working what is

this it is as you might say a form of

inducement to increase effort are you a

scholar I was a scholar when scholarship

was allowed among the

Israelites

[Music]

and Moses was drawn to this people and

he went to the city of pitham that he

might know of the sufferings of this

people

[Music]

no I can't really I can't let me go

please

you should not be here should you danan

it seems not but I have certain rights

no rights

danan not even the right to report to my

superiors officially not even that right

you will report when you're ordered to

report in the meantime you have some d

ities to carry out duties to my own

[Laughter]

manhood only free men can talk of

manhood what does thean the unfree have

to

say we have no straw to make bricks you

some of your own man of

straw an example little danan an example

is

required

stop stop man what is this punishment my

lord for inefficiency for insolence for

insubordination but not wanting to be a

[Music]

cockled

I said

stop back to work friends this is none

of your

concern I have things to remember have I

not bloody things

wait this is not to be spoken of do you

understand you killed him and you will

go away you will say that I did it they

will all say that I did it his heart sto

bleeding but in any case the

responsibility is

mine

[Music]

no all I know is that he went in there

and then I I I there is a dead Egyptian

in your

midst but you have no cause for fear he

was killed by his own

brutality I shall report this so have no

fear who are you young men who speak

about Egyptian

brutalities my name is Moses

Moses he

[Music]

I have served well my Lord and it is my

ambition to serve better I would not

utter the dirty word payment of course

you will be paid whatever your

information is worth do not waste time

I'd thought of uh some small promotion

do not waste time I have witnesses

outside to testify to the murder of our

overseer a sens murder if I may say so

go

on the Lord Moses was the Slayer he had

authority to exert discipline go on the

Lord Moses has no such

Authority he is an

Israelite he is the son of amram and

yoked of the tribe of of Levi where did

you hear this he was saved by his sister

in the old time of the necessary

execution of the children where did you

hear this where did you hear it I tell

No

Lie

Moses it has come

true bring

him is this the truth we've been waiting

for you call it the beginning I tell you

it's the end it's the end for

us for 20 years you've kept his name

alive on our lips like

a like a promise of

Deliverance and now what is he this

deliverer just an Israelite who's killed

an

Egyptian there's no promise of anything

except further servitude the voice is

the voice of a prophet my

son but the words are a slave's words

I'm not wild eyed like my sister here I

see things as they

are and when he walks into this house he

won't have time time to walk into this

house he'll be running for his life when

he walks into the house of his

parents I shall be expected to have

words but what words shall I

have I do not

know I loved the child I

lost and now I expect the pain of

learning to love the child who is

found and must once

more be

lost so the boy brought Moses to his

sister Miriam for Moses was empty of all

knowledge both of his family and of his

people and Miriam had to fill that

emptiness you

believe I was told of it taking from the

water

mother as I called her hid

nothing that I was nourished by

another's

milk but a girl from the

Israelites found me a

nurse I know that

Palace I can describe the chamber in the

garden and the in inscription that said

he was to be born In The House of the

king

who who he who was to

come the child of the sun they called

him but to me he was to be more than a

child of the

Sun

will you come

[Music]

home I have

found a mother you have found a

family in the Name of the King be it

known that Moses the Israelite once

falsely known as the Lord Moses stands

accused and convicted of the

assassination of a servant of the king a

free man son of Egypt let him be

rendered up to Authority on pain of the

execution of the capital sentence on any

who may be hiding him or otherwise

granting him

Comfort

away

we shall be together again in the time

of the setting free I must pray

so if there is such a Time the ex of

theal sence on any who may be hiding him

or otherwise granting him

comfort

[Music]

oh

[Applause]

[Music]

oh

[Music]

oh

[Music]

oh

and Moses came to Mount Horeb in the

land of

Si what we love ring when he com the

ring

R ring with

his when

he when

[Music]

he on his

head

crown when he comes

down after them get them go on get back

back to your own Wells go back to your

own land if you have no Wells that is

not our fault This Is Our Land our

water leave back

back

enough I used to be a priest in the town

of Ian but I grew sick of stone

Idols a man must worship something great

and

simple I'm still looking I am still

looking for it they say that on Mount HB

a man can see visions of the truth I

have seen no such

Visions perhaps I am too old I'm

certainly too old to climb it our story

father yes I wonder it's very easily

told the people turned against me when I

turned against

Idols they are cut

off my daughters must get water from the

well before the Shepherds of Midian

leave their

beds otherwise they will not be

permitted to get water at all but they

come earlier and

earlier depriving us of water has become

a cruel

sport I am grateful for what you did

you've said that many times already

gratitude is not a word it is the desire

to keep saying the

word my daughters are forward in their

speech if not in their

deeds how can one man Prevail against so

many

women are you traveling further perhaps

for the moment my story ends here

my journey has been one into

Exile and Exile is

everywhere for the

exiled can you do Shepherd's

work I'd always been taught that work

was for

slaves Egypt taught me many false things

you must put off that word exile

it's your people who know Exile not you

[Music]

yes I must learn to think of them as my

[Music]

people

Mar

Aon I think I've seen him again I am the

god of your father I have surely seen

the Affliction of my people that are in

Egypt and I have come down to deliver

them and to bring them out of that land

unto a good land flowing with milk and

honey

never

life but a token of Life flesh a body

will not miss I want know more of this

you mean you want to be

free of

[Music]

me

[Music]

my

[Music]

the children of Israel were driven by

famine from the land of Canaan they went

into Egypt and lived there as Shepherds

they prospered and

multiplied now the pharaoh of Egypt

began to fear their numbers and he

bonded them into captivity yet still

they

multiplied so he ordered that all their

newborn Sons be cast into the Waters of

the

a now one of these newborn men children

was saved by his sister Miriam and by

good chance was taken into the Royal

House of Egypt there to grow up as a

prince his name was

Moses one day Prince Moses was made

Angry by the brutish cruelty of an

Egyptian officer and in his wroth he

slew him lest he be tried and executed

for the killing of the Egyptian he fled

into the desert at length he came to the

encampment of Jethro and old

Shepherd there Moses stayed in Exile at

peace with his new life he followed the

lowly trade of

[Music]

Shepherd

[Music]

oh

and during the years wherein Moses Abode

in the tents of Jethro King Ramses of

Egypt

[Music]

died

[Music]

his majesty King Mana fifth king of his

dynasty first among them all for Glory

pharaoh of all

Egypt Moses his name was he was brought

up up like a royal Prince but then one

day he turned against the Egyptians he

killed some of them how many oh I don't

know how many but there were certainly

many he was strong you see like a ball

like a bull or a crocodile and then he

escaped from the Egyptians they wanted

to kill

him some say he will come back and kill

more Egyptians but I

believe he's dead in the desert eaten by

vultures or something just very white

bones now picked

clean I knew

him I remember him with some

tenderness an elder cousin who was

always promising to take me crocodile

hunting I do not believe he liked

hunting he would listen to bats and the

cries of field

mice no one else could hear them only

he I cannot easily see him as a great

vengeful lion striking men dead with a

rod there was a death Majesty

well it was I who sent him to pitham to

trouble and this old

accusation did I alsoo send him to death

in the desert there is no no certainty

of his

death at least two Caravans have brought

news of A Sort what news of a hero who

came to Midian out of Egypt killed 20

men at a blow married seven or eight

sisters the exact number is not clear I

would prefer him to be back with

us it would be good to see him smiling

at my

Triumph let us have him in Egypt

again

[Music]

now you see how a Good Shepherd

works this I did not teach you

him you seemed to know it

already yes

[Music]

sir a very gloomy

lullabi a very gloomy name it is the

name his father found for him settled

and not settled never at

rest but a good

son-in-law and only

[Music]

son-in-law

it's nothing the birds are

singing something

else

for

your

name name

is mely what a man is

called I am Called

Moses my wife is called Zapora my son

gasum my wife father Jethro the

documents I hold are signed by the Royal

Hand sealed with the Royal seal they

attest your right to return freely to

resume your former status and office my

status and office you see I am a

Shepherd I am an Israelite you are the

Lord Moses cousin to the Pharaoh as such

your place and Duty are self-evident if

I may say so with

respect you are not come to for me back

to Egypt I have no such Authority I'm

about the best beer of a royal

message my compliments to the

Pharaoh I have my own

[Music]

kingdom

[Music]

come no

closer

[Music]

put off your shoes from your feet for

the place where on you are standing is

Holy

Ground put off your

[Music]

shoes I am the god of your father the

god of Abraham of Isaac of Jacob and the

god of Moses I have surely seen the

Affliction of my people that are in

Egypt I've heard their cry I know their

sorrows and I have come down to deliver

them and to bring them out of that land

unto a good land flowing with milk and

honey now therefore behold I will send

you unto Pharaoh that you may bring

forth my people the children of Israel

out of

Egypt

but

but but who am I

that that I should go to pharaoh

and bring the people of Israel out of

Egypt I will be with

you but if I say the god of your fathers

has sent me to

you and they shall

say what is his

name what shall I say to them

you shall say to the children of Israel

what he is called for what he is called

is I am that I am and say too the Lord

God of your fathers has sent me unto you

now the king of Egypt will not let you

go not by a mighty hand but I will

stretch out my hand and smite Egypt with

all my

wonders they will not believe

me they will

say the Lord is not appeared unto

you what is in your

hand a

rod cast It to the

[Music]

Ground

put out your hand and take it by the

tail now put your hand in your

bosom now remove

it

[Music]

return it to your bosom and again remove

it through this power they will

believe how God I I'm not

eloquent

I not now before I

am slow of

speech I am of a slow tongue who has

made man's mouth who makes the dumb or

the deaf or the seeing or the blind am I

not the

Lord but your brother Aron shall be your

spokesman and you shall put the staff in

his hand but with you shall be the power

of the

Lord

[Applause]

[Music]

is

[Music]

I am more judge in this

R let it be given to one of the

wise one of the

strong

do not place the burden on me I refuse

the

burd

[Music]

God whatever you

are would you take his

life is it a life you want a bloody

[Music]

sacrifice is it the life of a man or of

a man

child

you shall have your sacrifice if you

restore him to

[Music]

life not a

life but a token of life not a body but

flesh a body will not

[Music]

miss

[Music]

will that satisfy you new

God

[Music]

[Music]

oh

you must

go

today

[Music]

[Music]

oh

[Music]

the blessing of the god of Abraham of

Isaac of Jacob of the god that you

Jethro have long sought for and for what

it's

worth the blessing of

Moses

[Music]

you

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

a

Mam

Mam Aron

I think I've seen him

again you saw him how this time as an

eagle flying almost above us

here oh that means he close to

us you must go to meet him this is

madness I can't even be

sure to go into the desert die in the

desert or die at thy hands when I come

back here alone without him for the sake

of a dream about an

eagle you still doubt well what is there

to believe in Egypt is hard slavery is

hard but at least their reality they're

not empty hopes following some dream in

the

desert you may be of his flesh our flesh

but not of our

spirit I have no doubts that people have

forgotten him I don't even remember his

face myself no they haven't

forgotten they only remember him in a

wrong

way a hero or a giant who could tame

snakes or strike men dead with a

l here once and may come

again but the again is a future so far

off it's almost the past past future

just

words they exist only in the mind I have

to live in the present like a

dog waiting for the next handful of

stale fish and Cornbread a on the dog

I'm a man neither more or less then be a

man the future is already here our

brother is coming

back go

iron over the

river into the Wasteland you must meet

him the whole thing is impossible where

do I find the

money

how did you

manage if an Egyptian loses his purse

what do you do courtesy give it

back I I shall have to bribe the

overseer I'll do that don't

worry there's Hope For You

Aon

hey take me to the other side huh no I

don't want any trouble over

slaves I can

pay dream you say

dream you're going to find somebody just

because of a dream paying in silver too

there was a time when dreams were

considered important in

Egypt that was Joseph the old days is

modern times nobody follows dreams

anymore I follow this dream I have

to then you are mad and the rest of the

world is sane huh I'm mad because I

dream of the coming of Salvation and

they're sane because they like slavery

is that it words words

words who is this one you're going to

meet my

brother the messenger of of the

Lord the messenger of the

[Laughter]

Lord the question of convincing

everybody who is

he who is

he never heard of

him

[Music]

show us a

sign give us a

sign but what will you think of us your

people how can I make you understand

us softened by

bondage

degraded can you understand

brother freedom from decision freedom

from

action a terrible word

freedom but I

must must make

you must make you

understand I

shall shall make you

[Music]

understand

brother

brother

[Music]

brother

[Music]

brother and

they what will they demand of

him a

sign something out of

nothing show us a

miracle

nothing

nothing Show Me A Sign

[Music]

brother

for

and no

word it is the

sign

so

sing the

[Music]

water

[Music]

be and though I

[Music]

will

[Laughter]

so dirty as if you had been on your

journey for years dirty or not you knew

it was

me I knew

you and yet you don't know

me we never had any childhood together

we never rejoiced in our our families

our

children oh now I can rejoice in your

children

if I could just tell which is

which you're Leah no I'm

Rachel this is

Leah my husband was killed by your

slavers soon after Rachel was

born and when do I meet your wife your

son they'll be waiting for

us on the way to the

land it's a long long journey

it'll be a long long time before we

leave

here first pharaoh must

be asked to let us

go then beg

treated finally

threatened will be a hard time it's

always hard for the

innocent it's always they who must

suffer first we sacrifice a lamb not a

crocodile one of the Great

Mysteries oh thank you Leah no I'm

Rachel I told you I was Rachel I'm

sorry what

God the God who spoke from the burning

bush on Mount Horeb the bush burnt and

burnt and was not consumed and a voice

said I am sending one who shall set my

people free it's this one God business I

find hard to take in uh what's this uh

God's position in relation to the other

gods why go into that again no not that

explain that that seems a reasonable

thing to us there are no other gods God

is God he is who he is the god of the

Israelites is the one

God Moses huh brother of Aaron the one

who killed the Egyptian overseer and had

to run away he thinks no one remembers

that's why he's back what is all this

what kind of tail do you think you are

spinning true look sir I've always been

a good friend of Egypt haven't I so I

can give good information valuable

information this Moses is up to no

good I'd appreciate a little Egyptian

generosity you're drunk man get to work

man go go on you friend of Egypt go go

on oh God is not a god of slavery if you

say there is one God then this is one

God who has sold us into slavery or else

one could say that we have at least two

Gods one to enslave and one to free no

God may have allowed the wicked to

enslave the innocent this bondage may be

a test a proving of our right to be

chosen there are weapons other than bows

and battering rams and Pitch balls there

are bricks and mats there are muscles

fools Egypt is the world only the maker

of the Earth and the sun and stars can

Prevail God is our way and our way to

God is through him I am not convinced we

will help you to change your ideas who

the

Young

is it

[Music]

you is it really

you

yes but I'm afraid I cannot prove my

identity the voice is enough everything

else has changed but the voice

no

Moses cousin Moses

you look like a very poor relation if I

may say so you summoned me

back to

Egypt why did you summon me I could not

forget

you others I forgot streams of bowing

courtiers wise men sycophants relations

none of them poor relations a Time came

when I felt a homesickness for

you the cousin who taught me how to hunt

gazel the enigmatic Prince of my Boyhood

I must have been a most unlikable boy I

was of course too young to use you and

now

you are old enough old

enough also the master of the world of

the Sacred blood of

Horus blood that is knitted from the

Stars Divine and holy holy

divine

do you still listen to the voices of

bats at

nightfall in the desert there were many

voices on

I never heard in Egypt you did not hear

my voice calling you or any voice that

spoke of me yes yes I

did a human voice not

human not a

human

voice the voices of the

desert that formless shifting World

whistling and singing Nonsense there is

no

solidity no certainty in the

desert reality is here cousin for a

thousand years we have been the Masters

of

Reality we have an

exact and

perfect and exquisite

an almost painful knowledge of the

nature of

power the means of its acquisition its

growth its

maintenance power is here and Forever

This is the real world and you belong to

it you who know reality have been

whoring too long among dreams of the

desert you are recalled to

reality

called not

[Music]

[Music]

recalled my

son my

firstborn

[Music]

[Music]

is he not

beautiful beautiful my son he will reain

after

me The Unbroken unbreakable chain of

rule the strength which makes the Desert

Winds Howl in

impotence and you choose those empty

voices out of the Dead sand this I

cannot

comprehend it's a simple matter

Majesty I have discovered Where I

Belong you belong to

us to me you ignore the truth and the

truth is that you are of Egypt

of the blood for the blood is not what

passes from mother to son that belongs

to the order of the

beasts it is rather what is of the

Soul whatever the soul

is your true physical mother was the

Shadow the woman who made herself your

mother was the substance Remains the

substance even in death you are of

Egypt and one of my duties is to confirm

that truth in your own life in that

bigger life we call

history the voices of the desert

spoke hard

metal the swirling shifting

insubstantial these are in your

words I reject

Egypt I embrace my

people your people as you call them are

the tough skin of the hands and feet of

Egypt no more but the body does not

disown them the truth is

Majesty we are

a a different animal

we we sent our

destiny we must be free to track it

never

never

I know that

I that you will never be persuaded by

entreaties Egypt is locked against the

voices of the

desert it must be signs signs from whom

or what or where from the maker of the

world the god of my

people signs

tricks the Egyptian conjurers know them

all you are being the more Egyptian for

thinking of

signs what will you do turn a stick to a

snake my Sorcerers can do that

yawning make your snake swallow

theirs we must expect big Magic from

Moses must we

not I should be appalled if you let the

mere nameless magicians beat you at that

game

there shall be no such commerce between

us

Pharaoh but you must believe

the the signs come from a true

Israelite you are an

Egyptian you'll always be an

Egyptian the signs will persuade you

otherwise let the truth story

begin I shall not be in it I am not

qualified I'm slow of

speech another of your

fallacies 3 days 3 days are you mad 3

days in the

desert small request we have orders to

sacrifice to the god of our people

orders we give the orders you interest

me little man why in the desert because

it was in the desert that my brother

heard the command who is who demands the

sacrifice you talk round and round round

and round three days request refused

what request uh this man says the slaves

want to spend three days in the desert

sir who put you to this nonsense it is

not nonsense with with respect sir we do

not consider it nonsense you we must do

sacrifice in the desert you have your

Gods we have our God you have not

answered my question it was my brother

who heard the word of God why does not

your brother make the request himself he

is slow of speech and slow perhaps of

understanding when will you Israelites

realize what you are we are beginning to

realize

sir take him back this

answer and deliver it as slowly as you

will sir where's the straw what the

straw to make bricks with we haven't any

straw the straw hasn't come oh you have

to have

straw I mean with respect

sir of course we have to have straw mud

straw the sun give us straw and we give

you bricks that's how it's always been

sir there have been some

changes nobody brings you straw anymore

you gather your own or you do without is

that

[Music]

clear

[Music]

stop

there sir with respect we own no fields

we have no

straw it's not right

Joshua you and your

filthy

a

[Music]

uh you put the rod in their fists you'll

put the sword in their hands tomorrow or

tonight you and your

brother this God of yours I hope he

strikes you down both of you strikes you

[Music]

dead

for

I want to know more of

this you mean you want to be

free of

me free of having to speak in your

name you think it's all a lie voice of

delusion but I'm mad

misled that's what the people

think they think

wrong The Voice spoke

true made no false promises nothing will

be

easy but the Lord did make one

error the error of choosing

me

coming don't catch his eyes everything's

gone wrong since he's been here God of

the Sun take

my god of the take you make

[Music]

the

[Music]

you see

Lord what you've

done ever since

my my return

there's there been nothing but

solemness a renewal of evil

ways

your people are sunken into a deeper

slavery you don't wish to set them

[Music]

free are they

not right to have lost all

hope oh

Lord why was it I that had to be

[Music]

chosen me it I want this

what shall I

do what shall

I say to

[Music]

them

Moses Moses go to the

Pharaoh say to him all that I bid you to

say but your voice shall be that of your

brother Eric

he shall speak for

you he shall stand in your

place as for

you you shall stand in the place of the

Lord

God of the

Lord

[Music]

God

[Applause]

and it shall be called Passover till the

end of time to Mark the hour of his

passing

over the water is

[Applause]

blood

there is one last trial yet to come will

be the most terrible trial in all the

world unless you let our people

[Music]

go

[Music]

is

[Music]

the children of Israel were driven by

famine into the land of Egypt where they

prospered and

grew the pharaoh of Egypt fearing their

numbers bonded them into slavery yet

still they multiplied so he ordered the

killing of their newborn Sons

now one of these was saved from death

and by good chance was brought up a

prince of Egypt his name was

Moses Prince Moses in righteous anger

killed a brutal Egyptian officer and

lest he be punished for his deed he fled

into the desert he came at last to the

camp of Jethro whose daughter Zapora he

married and there in Exile he lived the

lowly life of a

Shepherd now one day the voice of of God

spoke to him out of a burning bush

ordering him to return to Egypt and

persuade the pharaoh to set free his

people the Pharaoh would not heed his

words then he heard the voice of God

again promising that the power of the

all high would be imparted unto him and

that the Pharaoh would be forced to

[Music]

relent

[Music]

oh

[Music]

elra we are

going

[Music]

he

shall we

[Music]

go

whatsoever person desires to present his

petition to the most sacred Majesty of

the Pharaoh

Mana must do so as follows he must step

into the sacred Waters and thus be

purified

thus purified he may proceed to the

Royal

[Music]

Shore free me from the burden of Usery I

have been my many times I make your

Majesty's intercession

[Applause]

Pharaoh we humbly

request that you acceed to our petition

to go into the desert for 3 Days To Do

sacrifice this is the express

commandment of Our Lord God who

otherwise will show his displeasure in

many ways for the Lord God of the

Israelites is a jealous

God who otherwise will strike in

punishment who otherwise will take a

terrible revenge on all who resist his

Commandments

reest go into theer for

days

blood the walk's blood

[Applause]

[Music]

blood

[Music]

what

[Music]

clever cousin

Moses very clever

magic but no more magic than what my own

magicians can

do the inexplicability of these

phenomena must doubtless be attributed

to their presumably super natural origin

no that would be my Lord's a somewhat

unscientific approach approach by way of

Reality by way of observation and

Analysis and never by way of

theory it is blood then not mud but

whose blood that is not to the purpose

the substance behaved like blood smelled

like it tasted like it whose blood

that's not a question for the physical

investigator yet the consequences would

be the same if it were mud not blood yes

there are records of mud pollution of

the Nile followed by an immediate Exodus

of creatures that live and breed in

Clear Water swms of frogs and Nets

inevitable we may expect flies possibly

locusts a marine of cattle um all

stemming from the pollution by whatever

cause of water but uh my Lord

magician the blood is shall we say a

product of thical

conjuration

thical miraculous the term has never

been clearly

defined you know we have to remember

that this perverse and affecting Moses

is by upbringing an education an

Egyptian he has had access to obscure

magical law which in this age of

stability and power has never had to be

invoked against enemies

to talk as some do of the magical

potency of a new God a god of having

enslaved people moreover is to say the

least

premature look look look look H

see God keeps us unscathed and wholesome

while the Egyptians scream

[Applause]

[Applause]

how do explain that the

Israelites remain totally immune from

these uh nuisances the reason may be

geographical heam is some way from the

Nile sheltered removed from the

causitive

tion

d k this

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

K use your own

eyes the signs of a you how can you

still have any doubts oh it's hard to

take in I know we are a weak people

enslaved indolent

hopeless but the god of the universe has

chosen us chosen for what for the

working out of his Divine Purpose on

Earth so it seems and what we must do

now is to prepare for the day the day of

leaving our bondage but this bondage is

the only thing that we have we are old

and it is hard to face the new life a

hard God we must learn to think of

ourselves as a people many of us will be

discarded on the way worn out useless we

Who start this journey may not be those

that finish it but we're all one and the

dead and the yet unborn all share in

this common purpose this common goal I

don't like this talk Aaron it's all

blown up

words we're too old for this talk of

common whatever it is purposes and goals

and an endless Journey how can you speak

like this when the Lord has shown

himself on our behalf does this mean

nothing it means that we are the chosen

people it means that we must face the

desert and dream of the promise it

means is it Blasphemous to wish to be

left

alone the Lord God did not cease to

Smite the Egyptians with plague and

misery for locusts ate of the green of

the land

and the cattle were stricken with

pestilence even un death and the people

were stricken with boils running

swords and it was beyond the skill of

the Physicians of the Pharaoh to cure

them I have tried to understand have the

gods failed

him he has done more for the gods than

they could reasonably expect to be

done count the bricks in one pyramid

alone would take years what has gone

wrong and the land was a land of dry

bones

117,649

you cannot so easily ignore the

suffering of your subjects if I may say

this our friend is distraught he has

lost both a wife and a

daughter he can have another wife within

a

day another daughter within a

year let us quieten our

hearts let the brain

speak listen

this is the greatest Empire the world

has seen perhaps the greatest it will

ever see our cities are crammed with all

manner of merchandise our ships sail All

the known Seas our tares his Heaven our

armies shake the Earth we

Prosper we

prospered at the very core of our Empire

lies a

truth or shall I say a

belief that has long been taken for

truth it is the belief that the ruler of

the Empire has been appointed by the

gods themselves the Pharaoh is the issue

of their flesh but now the gods seem to

turn against their own flesh starvation

disease

dissension distrust of authority why

why can the changeless gods change can

the eternally strong grow weak can a new

God appear from

nowhere and overthrow the tables of the

Eternal Your Divine Majesty has touched

upon an interesting indeed compelling

theological

point the

gods are the gods Eternal self-c created

subsisting out of time there are no new

Gods but one old God long removed from

the concerns of the Egyptian state has

been

conjured you know which God you know by

whom you take us back to an old

time a time when the false belief in a

single God possessed many of the most

subtle and high-placed

Egyptians you refer to

Moses this belief has come back and it

has attached itself to a race of slaves

it is

logical will the slaves willingly

embrace the gods of their

masters these questions as I've said are

of immense theoretical interest but the

problem now it is a simple matter

Majesty the deities of the god asked

that they may do sacrifice to him it

would be a mark of kingly clemency to

Grant to be forced to

Grant to be impelled to Grant only 3

days Majesty where guaranteed es of

return

guarantees

open

open I know there is someone in there

open

give me some

water

take it take it go from Egypt we are all

dying

go it's a new thing for the Israelites

to be feared we were always feared

if the Egyptians had merely destroyed us

our memory would still have been

feared there are many dead Nations that

crawl out of their

ashes but they brought us low they made

us

despised and the fear how is it

expressed they tried to bribe us into

leaving into sneaking out in the dark I

shall of course be happy to take care of

that side of the operation we need such

resources and there is no need to wait

to be given one may

take there are number of fine Villers

abandoned death a plague I knew some of

the victims

well so assume my position of

course they're well served now God

curses them H has his crap so does the

Builder so has the maker of

songs the Lord has his craft

too and it may be

called a dance of

numbers so far he has smitten in Egypt

seven

times rivers of

blood

flies

frogs Nets the cutting down of their

sheep and

cattle the curse of the teeth of the

locusts and now the

plague the making of the world was a

dance of

seven bringing low of Egypt will be a

dance of

10 in the heart of the Pharaoh there is

some kind of a

dance the heart must soften and Harden

soften then Harden for one last

time then like a stone it will

crack it will

shatter and Egypt will shatter with it

strange

a dancing

God a god of the young what stops our

dancing out of Egypt now the Egyptians

are demoralized they could never stop us

yes yes why the delay we need the

delay we must prepare our order of

March we must take with us all of our

possessions our cattle our carts our

supplies of grain and

water

[Music]

then there will be the problem of the

sick and the unwilling the cries of

those who would last out their days here

in pitham women with a

child and then there is the question of

unifying the clans of creating degrees

of leadership and the question of arms

defense and the training of our army

that too Joshua let us not forget the

treasury

gods of Justice strive out the unjust

God remove the curse laid on thy people

restore us to health Thou Art all

powerful th all merciful God be merciful

Gods be

[Music]

merciful we come again King Mana to ask

that we be released from have you no

respect for our religion cousin Moses we

are doing holy work we are trying to

avert these inexplicable nuisances from

the innocent Egyptian people not

inexplicable Not

Innocent very well then our camon is are

tainted by the presence of the

unbeliever

[Music]

go do we have an answer sir may we take

an answer back to our people

[Music]

are you pleased with your power

cousin does it satisfy you to have

impaired even destroyed this great flow

of

order you want me to bow down to a God

who is the Enemy of the State without

the state we are nothing any of us order

Beauty

Majesty The Unbroken chain of

room to destroy the state is to betray

us to those windy voices out there in

the

desert do you want to see Egypt become

broken Stone lizards sunning themselves

on broken Stone you cannot maintain

order

on

ah you have recovered your voice on

slavery what

slavery any

slavery or the slavery of your

people

[Music]

will you not have your highest and your

lowest when you shape your dream

Kingdom will you not build your own

pyramid sir we need an answer be silent

little man I'm talking to your better we

will

build on the

Covenant and the bond freely embraced

the contract between man and

man I talk in a land you've turned into

a charal I cannot stand your smell much

longer you had better go may we have a

scribe called in let this be written

down and stamp for the Royal

seal the word of the Pharaoh

Moses you may go into the

desert and perform your

sacrifice I have made the Gods forgive

me spoken you have not finished

Majesty what have I not

said ah yes the men may go and do

sacrifice to the God of

destruction the women and children shall

remain

behind as this is a kind of War cousin

Moses shall we called them

hostages the heart of the Pharaoh is

heart

you have not seen enough

signs you have not suffered

[Music]

enough and the Lord said unto

Moses take up a handful of the Dust of

the earth and hurl it into the

sky

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

oh

[Music]

[Music]

why is my horse

[Music]

dying oh

[Music]

will you let my horse

[Music]

die the orders are that you leave Egypt

and go into the desert there to conduct

your

sacrifice and the women and children the

women and children are to go with

you

you expect something

more there is nothing more in my

instructions nevertheless we will

wait look here it is written

clear why can you not

go why can they not

go they cannot go because they know

there is something

more what is the something

more

H you

Aaron his voice what is

it we are to go to the desert for 3 Days

To Do

sacrifice in the middle of the month of

Nissan men women children our beasts our

Goods

no you have eaten of the bread of

pharaoh and have drunk of his wine for

three days you will neither eat nor

drink you will go forth to fast and do

sacrifice and then you will

return and your beasts will bleat and

Bellow a welcome home your pitiful Goods

will lie snug awaiting you this is the

contract that the god ceases his

torments that you go forth for 3

days this will not

do the Covenant we made has long been

broken there is no further bond between

us when we leave this land we leave as

free men taking with us our wives our

children our sheep our oxen of

goods not the pairing of a nail will

remain in the land of Egypt not a hair

or a scale from the skin of a beast you

go forth naked you return naked your

heart is still

hard against the Lord and the Servants

of the

Lord there is one last trial yet to

come it will not fall directly on your

head you will live to see the Israelites

leave the land of Egypt but this one

last trial

yet to come will be the most terrible

trial in all the world for you unless

you let our people

go

Moses

Moses why do I not kill

you why do I not thrust in this sword

myself

the orders

stand go

now I wish never to see your face

again so be

[Music]

it

[Music]

the angel of

death who shall describe him or

her like a trained Hound of the Egyptian

Hunters he carries the scent in his

nostrils he will follow the scent he

will follow the scent to the

firstborn you were told

this it's the last thing 10th figure of

the

Dance 4 days from now on the night of

the 14th day of of

thean the nose and the teeth of the

angel of

death will out straight for the first

born be an Egyptian or Israelite there

will be no nice

distinction even the firstborn welp of

the bitch's litter first hatchling of

the hen he will follow the scent our

first

born

ours don't be afraid

we have a

secret we shall put them off the

scent with your loins GED your sandals

on your

feet your staff in your

hand so says the Lord for the time is

with

us and you shall eat the Flesh of the

Lamb roasted and in haste and the bread

you eat with it shall be unleavened

bread

for it must be a bread of haste with no

time for the

leaving and you shall season your meat

with bitter herbs that the bitterness of

the Exile shall be in your mouths at the

very door of the Exodus kill the Lambs

now and pray as you kill for you kill in

the name of the Lord's Passover and on

the doorposts and on the lentil of your

houses dorb some of the blood as a sign

but why as a sign he said a sign of what

just a sign it's a good game it shall be

called Passover for tomorrow we pass

over from Death to

life and this strange supper

tonight is a

ceremony to remind us who we are and

what we

are

and we shall eat the

lamb it will be as an offering to the

Lord who will lead us in this passing

over from Death to

[Music]

life and it shall be called Passover

till the end of time to Mark the hour of

his passing

over

it's a terrible

thing a terrible

burden and the burden's just

beginning the silence strikes

it is like a new

noise he's

coming God help them he

[Music]

coming

[Music]

w

for the safety of the house and all

within

it may the first nameless who guards the

doors of the eyes be doubly

watchful May the second nameless who

sits in the doorways of the ears be

aware of the rustling and breathing of

the malign

Intruder see him smile May the third

nameless who lives suspended in the air

nostrils no evil threatens him smell out

the evil of him who approaches he is

happy the intent of my

precious no harm shall come to him

no for he is my precious

worlding

blesses be

quiet what was

that a servant

the first born of a

servant nothing

shall nothing

shall stand round us with your torches

burn your

incense say your prayer say it God of

the seven worlds here hearken let the

word of your servant be sweet in the ear

of the guardian of the living let no

evil touch your servant night let the

dark be beneficient and the vapors of

the night like the BB of the morning let

the souls of the evil dead sleep and be

un enticed by the smell of the

smoke that

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

by

[Applause]

what do I do

now beg you to comfort him on his

Passage through the tunnels of the

night beseech you to remember that he is

of your Divine flesh and to restore him

to the

light where he

is

needed or do I see you already as very

Hollow very weak

impotent a

sham am I Born too early or too late

does heaven remake

itself has the Dominion passed over once

again to that single God who was neither

Sun nor

moon but the light of

both in your eyes there is nothing your

head is the head of a

bird

[Music]

rise

up go forth from among my

people both you and the people of Israel

and

go serve the Lord as you have said

take your flocks and your

herds and bless your

freedom be

gone and bless me

also me

also

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

yes yes and you too come on hurry up you

want a lot of water gun you're all right

with the baby found it good come on

hurry hurry hurry

hurry on the other flank then these

young

boys these young boys the house of Judah

ofi

move to the

east to the east to the east the

promised

[Music]

land don't admire him too much my dear

as treasure feel these need personal

care this harness is loose I'll come

later what is that what what what are

you doing with that I'm just taking care

of the treasury that's all you are

stealing I'm not stealing if you don't

want me to do it I won't do it I saw you

[Music]

stealing

now all of you get your man and help the

poor people going up the

bank trial Benjamin follow

[Music]

me

[Music]

the

the is

the is

[Music]

the

[Music]

is

is

[Applause]

is he

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

is all

[Applause]

is all

[Applause]

[Music]

is

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

is oh is all

[Applause]

is is oh

is

all

is

[Music]

is

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

is

[Music]

it's quiet isn't it not quite in the

other mud pits you should never have

done

it you never know who's listening but

it's true the Nubians the berbers the

Greeks they all want to go into the

desert to do sacrifice to what they call

their gods that's why he should never

have done

it of course it could all have been a

coincidence the plague I mean the Flies

the Locust and so

on and I don't believe that about the

blood the river you mean yes but it was

blood did you smell it taste it and see

it Con

well no but my brother-in-law saw it

yeah and he said it was as red as any

blood he'd ever seen in a Slaughter H

yeah it was all against nature it was as

if nature had gone wrong and then

these they took advantage of it they

didn't cause it oh no but they pretended

they

did

cunning and they're not being here

against nature too what do you mean it's

against nature nature not to have slaves

I mean how do you get things done

without slaves you've got to have slaves

it stands to

[Music]

reason

T come

here keep

out get

down get out keep together let's all

keep

together

[Music]

you see how the wind drives the pillar

of cloud before us God's sign that he's

with us God works through everything he

works through the smoke and the rain and

the dust of the

desert he works through that pillar of

cloud all we have to do is follow him

follow where to to the promised land

where

else I hope you know where it

is the shock to the people has naturally

been profound it is manifested in a slow

numbing illness of doubt the whole

concept of the monarchy is inevitably in

Jeopardy since there seems in the eyes

of the common people to have been a

withdrawal of divine power the riots

have been contain to by Majesty I has

been Bloodshed a little not much yes yes

yes

yes and of course the great evil has

already turned into a vague

dream except

among the

bered wounds

heal anger does not

heal nor

hatred what is to be done the Pharaoh

out of his Divine clemency granted the

request of the Israelite Workforce that

they be permitted to sacrif to their God

in the

desert the period of leave requested was

3 days how many days have they been out

of Egypt five Your Divine

Majesty

so we bring them

back nothing could be

[Music]

simpler

[Applause]

why did you take us out of Egypt why

couldn't you leave us alone we were

happy there at least we didn't starve

you shall have meat to eat in the

evening and in the morning red to the

[Music]

full

we acknowledge you as our undoubted

leader I am not your leader the Lord is

your leader I am only a servant never

forget the Lord a miracle I suppose

is something you need happening when you

need it promise Freedom prom his land

promise milk and honey we can do without

the milk and

[Music]

honey it's

there

[Music]

is

[Music]

the children of Israel driven by famine

from the land of Canaan dwelt in Egypt

where they grew and prospered now the

pharaoh of Egypt fearing their great

numbers first enslaved them and then

slew the firstborn of their mench

children but one child whose name was

Moses escaped death and by good chance

was brought up a prince of the

land one day in Anger he slew a brutish

Egyptian officer and at the same time

discovered his own true identity lest he

be punished for his deed he fled into

the desert coming at length to the

encampment of Jethro where he married

Zapora and she bore him a son now one

day the Lord God spoke to him out of a

burning bush ordering him to return to

Egypt to bear this word to the Pharaoh

let my people go but the Pharaoh would

not heed him instead he increased the

agonies of the Israelites who blamed

Moses for their

sufferings so the angel of death struck

down the firstborn of the Egyptians

including the pharaoh's own son

relenting at last the Pharaoh freed the

Israelites they left Egypt to seek the

land promised by the Lord but before

long the Pharaoh repenting of his

weakness sought to bring them back into

Egypt back into

[Music]

slavery

[Music]

oh

[Music]

it's

mine it's

mine they stole it from me they took it

was

mine

it was

mine we cannot go on like this we can't

stop now this is not the time to

reorganize we shall be destroyed if we

do not they've used up all their water

they're stealing each other's food we

need discipline police no police indeed

that won't be our way we are organize in

a new way from within we who's we I and

a few others young people Progressive

people a good word Progressive progress

means going forward moving Egypt belongs

to our past our past to be wiped

out our past must never be wiped out if

all others forget even if Egypt forgets

we must

remember a minimum of violence you

understand we are not fighting a war

they are no

army threats will be in

order

hostages especially High

ones as for

Moses as for Moses

sir no violence no he is to be brought

back stand

trial a public execution

the charge Majesty there must presumably

be a formal

arrest you ask about charges all the

charges in the world blasphemy

disaffection treason

murder oh

yes

yes very much

murder

you hear

nothing nothing

unusual Pharaoh must know I can hear

him

Pharaoh clouds of

dust clouds of

[Music]

dust

it's

there the dust you see is the dust of

Egypt's

chariots the Masters have come to

reclaim their property what do we do

what do we fight with we do not fight

the

Egyptians and we do not go back into

slavery we progress

Joshua we move on I say it with respect

but I think you're AB I'm mad and our

cause is

mad and the Lord is

[Music]

mad

they will never cease to be

slaves slaves to hunger and thirst at

this moment no doubt at least we can

liberate them from that they cannot go

forward they can go sideways like crabs

but whatever they do they will be

certainly pined by us at first light

off oh yes their humiliation must be

clearly

visible

[Music]

look the SE the

[Music]

SE

come and speak to

me

here have you heard the orders for

tomorrow yes we shall pass on to the Sea

then there will be no Escape we should

be trapped no we shall cross believe me

with no boats no Bridges no foring

places believe me we shall cross over

come let's go around the camp tomorrow

they will need all their

courage

this doesn't seem much like freedom to

me orders orders all the time nothing

but sand and beyond that the sea there's

only one way and that's back Egyptians

know it they'll be here to take us back

but if we go back freely it'll be

different they're

reasonable he's not reasonable leading

them to die that that's all it is the

Egyptians could be generous to those

they knew were their friends

no hard words back to the old reasonable

way Triumph of Common

Sense look

out we were just protecting the treasury

there are thieves Among

Us I know what you're thinking but we

had no such intention we're all together

in this We Trust Moses and there and and

and

you

wind is blowing out of the

Dawn oh Lord If It Be Your

Will If It Be Your

[Music]

Will

[Music]

wake up wake up hurry look what's

happening to the

Sea

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

it's

not it's not

[Music]

is

[Music]

is is

[Applause]

all

is all

[Music]

his

[Music]

hey hey

[Music]

hey

[Music]

hey

[Music]

[Music]

hey

[Music]

[Music]

jus

[Music]

look I'm dead hting in the sky look an

[Music]

animal

the way is

open go follow

them follow them

[Music]

[Music]

on

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

hurry up the GS C on come

on

quickly hurry up hurry up hurry those C

[Music]

getting

closer at

[Music]

the

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

oh

[Music]

I will sing to the

Lord for he has risen up in

[Applause]

Triumph I will sing to the

Lord I will sing to the

Lord I will sing to the

Lord I will sing to the

Lord I will sing to the

[Music]

Lord I sing to the

Lord the horse and his rider he has H

into the sea into the sea SE SE SE

[Music]

SE the Lord is my refuge

and my

defense he has shown himself my

deliverer my deliverer deliverer

deliverer he is my God and I will

glorify him he's my father's God and I

will exalt

[Music]

him

[Music]

the Lord is a

warrior the Lord is his

name the Chariots of pharaoh and his

army he has cast into the

sea the flow of his officers are

engulfed into the Red

[Music]

Sea

[Music]

the dips has covered them they sank to

the bottom as a stone as a stone as a

stone as a stone the depth has covered

them they sank to the bottom as a stone

as a stone as a stone as a stone they s

to the bottom as a stone as a stone as a

stone as a stone they s to the bottom

there a stor there a stor St St they to

the botom a

[Music]

St

[Laughter]

M we have come to express our full

confidence in your leadership huh you

will always be confident thatan when

things go well oh no no well or ill we

acknowledge you as our undoubted leader

I am not your leader the Lord is your

leader I am only a

servant never forget the

Lord this is a time for rejoicing not

for thinking of the

lord we ask you in token of our Amity

and your awareness of our confidence to

drink wine with us your

I have a weak head that but I'm grateful

for your

[Laughter]

confidence tomorrow will be a hard day

especially for some

people you ought to make it clear to

your tribes that the worst is still to

come Is it wise to speak to our people

of that

now is it not enough to live for the day

the day is March the rest at nightfall

your task is to teach the agonies of

freedom freedom is a bitter gift it is

hard for a man to keep Authority with

such a slogan must we build on false

promises to think of the day is

dangerous if we eat and drink what the

Day brings we shall have nothing left

for tomorrow the day is for slaves not

for free men let us Begin by thinking of

the weak how does one think about the

weak

the Lord made the heavens and the

Earth in Six

Days on the seventh day he

rested we shall follow the lord the

seventh day shall be called the Sabbath

on that day we shall rest think of the

Lord drink in new strength from the

Lord and this shall be a

law this shall be a law and those who

break the law shall be punished

punished how

punished we'll think of that later it's

enough to speak now the Lord's

displeasure and believe me there will

come a day when that will seem

punishment

[Music]

enough

[Music]

look look they got

water

too hey come on I'm 3st

to shut up you stupid old

man

[Music]

stop thank you Moses thank you thank

you the old men wisely save their

water you unwise ly used up yours and

now you steal it's the

law it's the law that this desert of

yours taught us the strong takes from

the

weak God makes them weak God makes us

strong is a crocodile not stronger than

a

man man is strong in a different way

what a man has he has through foresight

and Prudence you shall not take from him

what he has what would you do Moses

bring down another plague you do better

to lead us all to water I will lead you

to water in time but now I tell you that

you must not steal no more than that for

the moment for now think that you are

displeasing the Lord and that he could

strike you if he wished but the Lord

would prefer you to be men not

crocodiles now

go

you know where we

are tribes call the Wilderness of

Shure long months to elim a long month

and what is there between here and elim

sand there and

sand sand and more

[Music]

sand

water water

water

we can't drink this it's full of salt go

[Applause]

back we can't drink this we can't it's

so you said got to lead us to water he

didn't say what kind of water I salt

it's not water we can't drink this

promises you promised us we would have

water give us water not

lies

J you said you knew this place like the

back of your hand one can't always be

exactly

sure we strayed so far off the path I

knew listen I promise you promises it's

all promises isn't it promise Freedom

Promise Land promise milk and honey we

can do without the milk and honey what

you really

say we the water of

Egypt

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

I can't see them

the

[Music]

we can't go

on can't go

on he's dying of thirst of thirst he's

thirsty we must find some

water there's no water have some

water there will be soon

but he's

dying tell us why

why hey

hey it's true we cannot go on within a

week half of our people will be

dead have

faith for one more day one day yes what

then and why are we following this road

this is not the way to the land you have

promised our people Canaan is there to

the

east so are the Egyptians Joshua and

their

allies is this why if I'm permitted to

ask you're taking us towards the

mountains of the siai how did you know

we going to the

SI I know how to read the

stars and my thoughts

[Music]

elim yes Bim God is with

us

[Music]

h

[Music]

in

[Music]

my

that

you my brother I don't know

you but the woman

I are you not the wife of

elifas your husband is

old youth is drawn to youth in the Lusty

pleasures of the bed I know but it's a

sinful bed there's no sin in pleasure or

should there be any pleasure in

sin if your husband knew about this he

could send you away the children would

grieve he knows

nothing we've been careful not careful

enough to prevent me from knowing and if

I know others

know

listen you we are trying to build a

nation the families are the bricks of

that Nation if the families crack the

nation will

fall we're a very small crack and a very

small brick never think of yourself is

an exception only God is above the law

it's a bad

business what will you

do

nothing I've done all I can

do does he have a wife who

knows he's a strange

one perhaps he Beyond

passion

come no I thought I heard one of the

children you couldn't

[Applause]

have why do we have to move why not stay

here here is everything because the

promised land is elsewhere

you always say that will we live to see

it you and I I don't know the children

they'll see it we could settle here so

happily pastures water the whole place

laughs and rings with water yes but we

have to have something more than an

oasis have to yes have

to call it the destiny of our

nation it's a big word El

I don't believe there's anything after

this life not for you me the others we

die alone and we go into the dark alone

but all of us together made into a

nation that's different you call us a

nation not yet it's still being made it

has to be needed like dough but when it

is made when it lives and breathes and

draws its life from the laws that

sustain it then there'll be no end to it

there've been other nations they died

isn't Egypt dying We Shall Not Die oh

yes men and women will die but Israel

will live

forever because For the First Time The

Nation will not be greater than the

smallest member of

it did he tell you all

this some of it some of it I worked out

for

myself always the same no sooner do we

unload than we have to load again loads

on the Don's backs loads on our backs

and the heaviest load is Moses Moses he

got to this place by chance by good luck

and then there may be more good luck and

then they may not one thing we can be

sure of s thirst Moses pretending to

know where he is pretending there's a

God up there showing the way but there's

no way and there's no God s sand s

Moses hey hey hey come along come on

come on

[Music]

hey

[Music]

good fish and meat and bread flesh pots

onions garlic and Cake why did you take

us out of Egypt why couldn't you leave

us alone we were happy there at least we

didn't

starve will you never cease to

complain

you say you lack bread you lack meat

yes

well you shall have meat to eat in the

evening and in the morning bread to the

full you have the Lord's promise that

this is so now go

away

go I'm sick of

you

but God help me you're all I

have

quick quickly

[Music]

[Music]

get

[Music]

[Music]

come

on

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

it

[Music]

speee speech

[Music]

spee

thank

you you take credit for a miracle where

there is

none I never take credit for

miracles you told me about the migration

of the quailes when we were back in

Egypt and I was grabbing the dirt of you

they rest at night here in the scrub

lands they're easily caught hardly a

miracle a miracle I suppose

is something you need happening when you

need it will they get their bread bread

you said in the

morning so I did but I didn't say which

morning have you heard of

Mana bread from Heaven bread from

Heaven it's the resin that falls from

the tamas

trees fine flaked thing fine as H Frost

white as coriander seed and the taste is

the taste of Wafers made with with

honey a

poem a song sung by my father-in-law

Jethro he taught it to me and I sang it

to Zapora I sang it above the body of

Zapora how soon shall I meet

Zapora not too

soon there'll be some more days of

grumbling then a few short live days of

Joy God help us there'll be a time of

bloodshed

fore

foreign

[Music]

spee

[Music]

what is

[Music]

it it tastes like bread

[Music]

it Shall Gather according to his need he

who gathers much shall have no more he

who gathers little shall have no

less gather only as much as you can eat

on the day before Saturday the Sabbath

You Shall Gather twice as much for on

the seventh day there will be none of

the Lord's

bread

what are you

doing you know the law of the Sabbath

what law what Sabbath the law has been

clearly laid down the Sabbath is for

rest no journeying no work we weren't

working we were gathering food there's

no difference gather food shear sheep

it's a tent it's all work it's stupid

may I say something oh yes please if God

felt the need to rest from his labors on

the seventh day who are we that we

should think we're better than he is no

man is not made only for work but also

to think and for thought there has to be

leisure that Leisure must come

regularly

totally it's greed that led you into

this you'll go hungry till tomorrow you

won't get too hungry tomorrow starts at

sunset

today

[Music]

now there were certain tribes of the

desert that saw the Israelites passing

through the desert with their goods and

cattle and camels and

sheep among these tribes were the

amalekites a Fierce and warlike people

that dwelt in the caves of the rocks

they moved with speed for they were

skilled in The Taming of horses and with

speed they sought to drive the

Israelites from their land and to prey

on their goods and their

[Music]

cattle

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

power

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

be

[Music]

m m

[Music]

B

[Music]

weird defenseless we have no

weapons only these wretched things I

always said it would come to this the

road must be kept open excuse

me I have something to suggest what is

your name

cor you experienced at

war no

but if I may suggest a simple

strategy

[Music]

for

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

now

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

is

is

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

we won we won we beat them

[Applause]

[Music]

back and thus did Moses gain the road

and lead the Israelites through the land

of Si to mount HB sacred to the

Lord

[Applause]

[Music]

say this to the people of Israel you

will obey my voice and keep my Covenant

you shall be to me a nation of

holiness how long will it be the world

took 6 days to make to make laws for the

Israelites may take longer a good deal

longer there are some who are saying it

was trickery that he knew a strong wind

would blow back the waters it's happened

before they say have you ever thought

that your Moses may be

[Music]

met

[Music]

is

[Music]

the tribes of Israel were enslaved by

the Pharaoh but still he feared them for

they multiplied even in bondage and he

slew their men children but one of these

was saved his name was Moses as a Young

Man Moses killed an Egyptian and fled to

the desert but God ordered him to return

and demand the Israelites be freed the

Pharaoh refused even when the Lord

ravaged the land with plague and

pestilence only when the angel of death

took his son did the Pharaoh

yield then the long March began to the

land the Lord had promised but Freedom

meant privation thirst death in the

desert and the attacks of Waring desert

tribes such as the amalekites but the

Israelites quickly learned The Art of

War and with God's help the road lay

open to Mount Horeb where the Lord had

first spoken to Moses and where he would

speak

again

[Music]

oh

[Music]

guarded by Joshua and his Warriors the

children of Israel in their endless

wandering through the desert came near

to Mount Horeb sacred to the Lord it was

there that Moses had first heard the

word of God and beneath it dwelt his

wife Zapora and his little son

gersam all

[Applause]

[Music]

clear

[Applause]

come

[Music]

on

[Music]

oh

[Music]

oh

[Music]

the you have thin you've been a long

time without the roast lamb and the

mutton stews I used to give you and the

love

you're very

thin and older I didn't say

that

Moses

Moses

Moses Moses

Reuben in Judah impossible it was some

matter over a woman a married woman of

Judah and a single man of Reuben they're

developing a taste for war tribal War

brother against brother it was to be

truthful the possession of weapons that

drove them to the use of weapons it's

always thus we have to fight other

nations so be it but we must not fight

among

ourselves how many dead only one a very

small

War was it by Chance the yes the single

man of reubin no longer able to love the

married woman of

Judah this is not war this is murder war

is against an enemy someone strange of

strange tongue of evil

intention

but we are one of common speech and

custom of common belief chosen together

as one people as one family for the

special favor and the special chastening

of the

Lord that deed is not a brave deed of

warfare but a foul Act of

murder let the accused come

forward

what have you to say I acted under

orders we were ordered to attack the

enemy

enemy there was no

enemy a man killed a man and that is

murder and what is the punishment for

murder let the Elders of the tribes come

forward and

speak what is the punishment for

murder the washing out of the blood by

compensation let the young man or

parents make good the lot of one of our

able-bodied

men let us have a warrior or a slave or

say cattle or sheep no evam

no we cannot value human life in terms

of possessions for human life is

precious and

irreplaceable and cannot be treated as

a kind of

money what is the punishment for murder

if we cannot put a value on human life

then we cannot compute the punishment

true and yet not true we can value human

life but only in its

terms a life for a

life a death for

death how shall the

murderer I mean how is it to be done oh

Joshua to think think of that now do you

suppose I intended his immediate

execution let the judges of his guilt

Revel in their own

confusion did he or did he not do it can

we trust the

witnesses or did perhaps the dead man

Drop Dead in Fright when he saw the

knife

approaching we've hardly begun to

conceive any of

us of the preciousness of a human life

I have promised one you and one ra this

is clearly a simple matter of

misunderstanding you had a simple offer

in

mind

[Music]

so

quiet so

peaceful you'll wear yourself

out I know I know all about

it organize

delegate the basis of good government is

the T 10 the what the

10 good Junior officers each one in

charge of 10 then Senior officers in

charge of

50 then you climb the ladder very good

men in charge of a 100 and then at last

the cream leaders of a

thousand God-fearing men trustworthy

family men preferably young men men like

Joshua he is one who carries the new

fire but first I must tend this fire for

him and War My Hands by it Joshua is he

married

no it sounds like like the organization

of an army and so it is you are an army

but an army of human Souls you will be

fighting your way towards this land of

milk honey it will be a long time before

the cows and goats are born that will

yield that milk and for that honey you

must build your own

[Music]

hives I think I'm being

summoned God help me that is a prayer

you will be able to express in person

[Music]

say this to the people of

Israel if you will obey my voice and

keep my Covenant you shall be to me a

nation of

Holiness and the words of the Covenant

shall be set down un stone

imperishable that they may be seen by

the eyes of

men the choice

the choice is

theirs soon I will leave

you and I leave to you the main duties

of

administering ordering

judging the task which will long absorb

my time my

energy and such poor brains as I have

will be the task of making the law that

you must

administer they are laws for all men and

they are laws the world has not seen

before first we have to remember that

these laws come from

God but so long as men shall live in

Freedom

unpressed it is on such laws that their

lives must be based

and they must

know that these laws are

Sanctified by God

himself God is not a demon of the rivers

or a fire or air he is not a stone

Idol he is

spirit and a spirit he must be

worshiped so there shall be no making of

Idols of stone or iron or wood or

silver the very name is sacred and its

use must be sacred the day of rest which

is God's day shall be sacred

also it shall be a day for the family

and the Family itself shall be seen on

that day as sacred the family and the

bond of marriage the children that are

the fruit of that marriage all shall be

bound into a Garland of honor and love

and what a man owns shall be sacred

since it comes from God

be it his Goods or be it his life both

are in violent no killing No Stealing no

coveting the things our fellow men

possess for all sin begins in

desire and above all we are free

beings copies of that God who is the

Primal and ultimate free

being we are free even to choose to

enter into a covenant with

him with him who made us

and now I ask

you will you accept that

Covenant will you accept that

Covenant yes we accept will you accept

the

[Applause]

Covenant

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

I must

enter you understand I must be entirely

alone make your Camp

here how long will it

be the world took six days to make to

make laws for the Israelites may take

longer a good deal longer but remember

if all this should be too much for me it

won't it won't remember I say that you

are the next

chosen but there must be others before

me your brother some of the elders I

must look to the young to

you and

now be near Joshua be near for you two

are

[Music]

called

[Music]

[Music]

it's a cold night it's a cold place my

friend when will Moses be back soon very

soon

Aaron

Aaron any any news from up there youve a

strange choice of words my friend oh I

apologize a very homely and earthy word

I merely wondered well when he was

coming back to us it seems to be already

a long time two sebas one of which you

remember you neglected to keep well I

forgot you will remember that I said I

forgot you will also remember that I

said I thought it was nonsense and you

were rebuked for blasphemy the Lord's

day is not to be termed nonsense Cory Oh

I thought we were all free men now huh

all entitled to a free opinion free

under the law where is this law you talk

about so much huh I hear much about the

law but I see nothing of it you'll see

all you want to see Dayan all in good

time I

wonder is that blasphemy too is it

blasphemy to wonder whether he'll ever

come down again he may receive new

orders go down Moses to the other side

there are more slaves to bring to

Freedom we've slaves enough

datan some men will always be

slaves so no

news no news I've told you before don't

ask me for news I thought perhaps Joshua

might have gone down with news or

whatever I'm supposed to call it Joshua

has his orders and you have yours and I

have

mine my orders were to give orders my

order was to keep

order which I'm doing which you are

doing what's going on in that mind of

yours keep well uh peace be to your T

Rubin well come on tell me a very

natural thought you keep order until

Joshua is ready to come down from the

mountain then Joshua keeps

order this is

nonsense Joshua has his

work and I have

mine whatever it is I am his voice

Joshua is his right

arm that has been fully agreed ever

since the war war oh that little

Skirmish you mean with those unwashed

desert

people Joshua the great warrior General

Joshua what have you against Joshua I

have nothing against

Joshua I just wonder sometimes how you

fit in I

mean what you mean I

think is that you want the difference

due to the wife of a great man H well

when did I I pretend to be a great man

there are no great men here believe me

not even my own

brother we don't want greatness we ask

very little to build our

nation and means law law more

law what we're all doing at this moment

is waiting for

the painful hammering out of the law

there'll be judges I should be a judge h

that be great enough for you H my

husband the judge will that

do you misunderstood my

meaning I'm not even sure whether I

understand it

myself

but well once there seemed so much to

look forward

to now there seems to be nothing

nothing we've come out of Egypt free a

free people

we've seen wonders

Miracles there are some who are saying

it was

trickery that he knew a strong wind

would blow back the waters it's happened

before they

say and it was all supposed to be the

power of this God his

God and where is this God of

his this God is in everything in the

power of the wind and the lightning in

each of his own creatures

and now he's talking to my own brother

giving him the law making a covenant

with our people and what are we supposed

to do look up at the sky and pretend to

see a God that isn't really there who

only lives in the mind of your Moses

have you ever thought that your Moses

may be

M I think we'd better go to bed and tell

them but no one is to work on the

Sabbath Sabbath is my day oh but I say

why don't we have that one day and you

can have all the other days so that we

can lay down and rest because I told you

and tell them if they do something

wrong I will punish

them what will you do I will come down

in a

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

Thunderbolt go down on your knees bow

down to it or it'll hit you a great

clout on the head stop

that you know the law there is to be no

worshiping of graven images and that

means also the pretense of worshiping

graven images is there no more room for

children's games no there is danger even

in children's

play what do you want the

treasure treasure to see it just to see

it to see if it's still here

come come with us come on get on your

feet what do you want to get away what

do you want to do the gods have

abandoned us we must get away from here

We All Die Here this place is no good we

want to divide the treasure once we want

to see the I can't deliver the treasure

to you you know that please that's no

business of

your take

your we want to see the treasure

what is all this be quiet be quiet all

of

you now what is all this ask him we wish

to see the treasure yes show us the

treasure I speak in front of all the

people show us the treasure yesan speaks

for all of us is our leader

[Applause]

we want to see the

treasure and keep them

[Applause]

back like sheep without a

Shepherd someone must care for

them

there are you

satisfied quite

satisfied my

compliments very well guarded you knew

this

tatan so what game are you playing game

playing we are all afraid the gods of

Egypt frown on

us your brother our great leader has

been Spirited Away tell him my friends

speak for yourselves naan is

[Applause]

right we true

God be silent me will help us from here

Aaron have you forgotten the Covenant

that you swore to the god of Israel

remember his words you shall have no

other gods but

me be silent lest the Lord strike you in

his terrible anger Moses is dead my

brother is not dead do not be afraid

even now he's in the mountain conversing

with our God lead us out of here Aon

lead us out of here help us you wish to

leave this place yes but how you will

never find your way alone who will lead

you across the true we shall be lost yes

we shall be lost divide the treasure

true the treasure belongs to all of you

but how can it be divided into equal

parts

see this vessel can this vessel be

broken equally shall not one family have

more than another all this Jewel what

man has the skill to divide this Jewel

in half

no no I tell you this treasure cannot be

divided it belongs to the whole nation

it was given to us by the Egyptians in

payment for years and years of

suffering it represents the grief of

generations you see

Aon they are listening to you

they love

you you have their confidence

already you Aron lead

us lead us

[Applause]

Aon God we can

understand at

all saying that he's no longer

there that he's

disappeared

they're all saying it even the young

whether he's there or not you are here

the time is come for you to take charge

to rule I'm doing all I can you can't go

on say no

wait have they been asking you for

gods for Gods Gods Not for some big

bearded father up the mountain

yes yes they've been asking for gods

they're fools no they're afraid and you

you and your brother you talk of the big

invisible God who brought us out of the

land of Egypt into the bondage of sheep

done and they don't understand no well

of course they don't understand they've

been

slaves he's tried them too hard I will

talk to them I will try to help them to

understand talking is not enough now you

have to do

something

[Music]

you head the Sun

[Music]

the

the

the his

WIS hisone is fa with the star his and

power the world

aha

his head is

the he on

his the the west and the East and the

[Music]

sou from his the

wind

his he's tring power all over the

world

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

oh

it's theth and the west and the East and

the

Sun

people of Israel you have done great

wrong you have murmured among yourselves

and demanded

Gods but your wrongo doing was that of

children who cannot understand you still

do not understand the great thing that

has happened to us we have been chosen

by God himself not by gods but by the

one true indivisible God who made us and

made everything try to understand this

now this

image is not God the very idea is absurd

but it will remind you of God each day

that you pass by it for it is an image

of strength of loving strength its head

the sun its foreward the moon its limbs

the four corners of the universe look at

that animal the one I saw in the sky yes

it's a cal and it is fashioned out of

the gold that belongs to all of you so

what you see is the image of our Unity

as a people the Unity of a people chosen

by God himself the great God of gods

whose silver is the moon whose gold the

sun whose Jewels the Eternal

constellations of

[Applause]

[Music]

Heaven

where will

[Music]

our where will our weding weding be up

in the

of what will be what will

be for my for me what will it be what

will we Eaton for my day time for me

where we our w W be up in the front of

a where our weding weding

[Music]

be you see they're like children they're

just needed to be kept busy they're

happy now it will not be just that for

[Music]

long I saw some old men this morning

touching it for luck as they said and

there was a young woman giving thanks

it's good to give thanks to give thanks

to an

image her child had been ill and now was

better she said the the thing the cough

is magical I tell you they don't think

it's a God

anyway had to gain some

[Music]

time the of the

de where our weding W be

the of

the where ouring W be the of

[Music]

the

[Laughter]

wine can you get any more of this what

do we buy it with that gold thing up

there risky you'd never get away with it

I'd rather drink this than take that

smoke stuff what that it gives you

visions of the promised land so they say

it makes you sick

afterwards he's coming down soon who

says so it's only a rumor we ought to

have a night of it how do you mean

there'll be no celebration when he gets

here he'll have a law against

celebrations all nicely carved out

yeah we must celebrate before he gets

[Applause]

down celebrate

what we can think of

something the fever must reach its

height and then he'll grow cool

again it's just a matter of waiting give

him nothing to

drink bathe his forehead with

water

help us and save us Al Lord you are our

God and we will worship you and

sacrifice for you show us your will oh

God give you thanks God for being here

for our eyes to see and our hands to

touch us show us the way out of the

desert show us where we must go

[Music]

us

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

h

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

listen all

[Applause]

wasted all wasted I must speak to

[Music]

[Music]

them

[Applause]

I'll get back to your tent get back when

I tell you listen listen to me all of

you friends Brothers children of Israel

get back to your tents at once on pain

of death no we don't want to should we

you don't know what you do stop cing we

must stop them cing no the hands of the

Levites must remain clean Aon started

this let Aon finish

it consume you I tell

you Aaron's wife El

saber come on El saber you don't want

Aaron he's an old

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

man

[Music]

[Laughter]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

h

[Music]

[Music]

a

[Music]

for

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Laughter]

[Music]

[Music]

h

[Music]

get him kill him kill

[Music]

him

[Applause]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

this is another kind of

slavery stop this God SE the true God SE

remember who you are the people chosen

by my God go back God will punish you go

back to your

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

t

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

w

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

oh

[Music]

oh

we have Mischief

below let us see what the Mischief

is

oh

we were not involved your people the

Levites were not

involved not involved

not in stopping

it what could we

do assemble

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

them

[Applause]

[Applause]

not enough

know never

enough the work

Wast all the work Wast

you'll be punished for what youve

donees will punish you

[Applause]

all the land of Canaan yes the promised

land the land is ours the land of our

fathers but it will not be ours for the

easy taking but whoever now possesses

that land possesses it not by God's

promise we are without menfolk thanks to

your Holy Wars I Spit on Your

Authority was my own brother you killed

do you know that dead because of some

nonsense about the Sabbath and all the

world knows it for

nonsense you see your foolish children

the land is Flowing with milk and honey

and the land is

ours

I have caused thee to see it Moses thine

know

eyes Thou shalt not go over into the

[Music]

land

[Music]

is

[Music]

my

the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt

where they grew and prospered now the

pharaoh of Egypt fearing their great

numbers first enslaved them and then

slew the firstborn of their men children

but the infant Moses was saved from

Death by his sister Miriam he was

brought up as a prince of Egypt but was

reunited in manhood with his true people

and God bade Moses to demand of the

Pharaoh freedom from bondage for the

children of the Lord and the WTH of God

covered the land of Egypt with plague

and pestilence and last of all he sent

the angel of death then the Pharaoh set

free the Israelites and they passed out

of Egypt pursued by the pharaoh's

vengeful armies the children of Israel

crossed the Red Sea which parted for

them by the power of God but closed with

Mighty destruction upon the Egyptians

wandering on in search of their promised

land they suffered the a of thirst and

hunger and Savage Slaughter at the hands

of the Waring desert tribes but they

became skilled in the art of defense and

came at last to Mount

Horeb Moses ascended the mountain to

receive the laws of Israel from the Lord

God himself but in his absence the

children of Israel grew restless and

impatient Aaron the brother of Moses

built them an effigy out of the gold of

the treasury of the people but the

Israelites took this as a true God and

worshiped it they paid a tribute of song

and dance and sacrifice when Moses

returned from The Mountaintop he looked

with horror upon the sins of the people

he ordered that they assemble to be

judged and to be

punished

[Music]

all

[Music]

you said you would accept the

Covenant you had no

faith you are a frail and ignorant

people and now the tablets of the law so

painfully so lovingly inscribed must be

broken or what you accepted in Freedom

was rejected in Freedom and for this you

must suffer since Freedom always has its

price you must suffer in ways that you

will see bear smell taste feel and the

very nerve and the Very

marrow but for the moment we must enact

the right of the breaking of the

Covenant

so be

it this was your

god what you worshiped must be your

B what you took unto yourselves in the

spirit you must now take unto yourselves

In the Flesh what you kissed

you must

eat and

[Music]

drink I have appointed officers of my

own tribe of Levites to see that mouths

that cried out in obscene ecstasy shall

now cry out in a different

[Music]

manner

[Music]

we must start

again once more I ass the mountain to

take counsel with the Lord Our God but

first will you promise to worship no

other God but

him nor to make images of things that

are on the earth for profane and sinful

[Applause]

[Music]

worship

[Music]

[Applause]

he

so Moses went up the mountain a second

time and the tribe of the Levites that

were his own tribe prepared a house for

the New

Covenant and the children of Israel

waited for Moses to return to them that

he might carry the pardon of the Lord

among his

people

[Music]

[Music]

yes I'm a father becoming I want to see

him he's very busy he has Israel to look

after

[Music]

[Music]

you have you missed your father guessing

are you staying with us are you going

back to

Israel I'm

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

staying

[Music]

the Ark of the

Covenant in your keeping Aaron Aaron the

priest Aaron the

priest how am I to take that in manner

of a punishment a priest is God's voice

could one wish to be higher than God's

voice once I was your voice well take it

not in the manner of a

punishment but in the manner of a

promotion well

then to my first

office God go with you man of

God

[Music]

hereon are inscribed God's

laws every word shall be accounted

sacred

here all

[Music]

Israel the Lord Is Our

God the Lord is

[Music]

one

God who art a God of

Justice be also we beeech thee a god of

forgiveness if we have sinned once shall

we not sin again if we were

perfect would we have need of

thee of

[Music]

again will happen again this is a

different kind of

Celebration they know they're going to

the

land and you my

sister you feeling

better tomorrow we move

on

I could

do I could do

nothing

they they had ceased to be human

beings

I shall be glad to move

on it's the moving on that's

important I will never see

it but it doesn't

matter the work I was ordained to do has

been long

done you were my work

I heard the soldiers sing their

song and God was

there for if they had not been

singing they would have heard him

cry the

river the

Reeds the floating

cradle

girl who are

you can you get you wet

ners and I

did I turned him into an

Egyptian so many

gods but not the one true

God so many thousands of years for it to

come to the

light and still they will not

see and when they see they will

say what good is it

rest

Miriam

rest and when the city is

built it will be

destroyed and the temple will be

destroyed they'll be made to wander

further for there is no abiding

City only the

[Music]

dark I must talk to my brother Moses I

am here

Miriam

you will not see

[Music]

it

let the soul of this thy servant go

calmly to its Haven where there is

neither change nor suffering where the

mill of the heart grinds no more of the

bread of

[Music]

tribulation where the of the

Lord and the

F

the and Man part the

pray all

thankfulness to the

[Applause]

Lord and yet we rich of our

[Music]

we

Canan Beyond those

mountains we must buy out the

Land There will still be a long time of

waiting

[Music]

waiting what do we live

on we will set up the

Tabernacle

of the tribe of rubben shamur son of

sakur of the tribe of Simon shafat son

of [ __ ] of the tribe of Judah calb son

of jeun of the tribe of issaka Eagle son

of Joseph of the tribe of Ephraim Joshua

son of

nun over there over the

mountain the land of

Canaan yes the Promised

Land a land so fertile it is doubtless

inhabited by people of Rich flesh and

strong bone but whoever now possesses

that land possesses it not by God's

promise the land is ours the land of our

fathers but it will not be ours for the

easy taking your task is to spy out the

land to see what it is to see the people

are they weak are they strong are they

few or

many and now

now be of good courage and bring us the

fruit of that

land

Joshua let's be

going

[Applause]

it's always the same we start something

off and then we wait we wait for months

it's like laying the plates for a meal

when you know there is nothing to eat

remember the fish we used to eat in

Egypt and the cucumbers and the melons

and the leaks and the onions and the

garlic you make me thirsty and there'll

be no water till tomorrow is anything

being done I mean magic or spells or

anything to get something done shh

that's against the

law you're coming with

us what precisely were they doing on the

Sabbath they were gathering Palm frons

to set a fire harmless enough it seemed

but knowing that the Covenant is strict

on this matter and knowing that you

yourself yes knowing that you yourself

set great store by the punctilious

observance of the Sabbath rest not I not

I but

God it's pun ilous

observance as you so grandiloquently

term it is of the very essence of the

law to abstain from work that the body

may be at rest and the spirit at one

with

God one day in seven can we not spare

one day in seven to honor our

creator the men in question were rebuked

naturally they did not seem repentant

what happened was that one of them was

discovered later in the day Gathering

dry sticks tinderwood the rebuke had

been of no avail

and now and now I seek

instructions as uh to an appropriate

punishment

it is God's day the Sabbath must not be

defiled let them be stoned to death

forgive

me but I don't think I let them be

stoned to

death with respect and difference but I

do not think that my people could

possibly accept you your people suggest

an alternative punishment

ment more rebukes tortures

imprisonment we are all in prison till

we reach our pris land best be bold and

be done with it the law is the law one

and indivisible to kill a man merits

death to kill the Peace of the Lord's

Sabbath is that a lesser

crime let them be sentenced to death by

stoning oh

right oh

right this is not Justice it's

murder

Baris

barbarism you speak to me of

barbarism you who to my certain

knowledge were one of the leaders of the

ghastliest displayers of barbarism in

the history of the 12

tribes count yourself lucky death that

you were not one of the Sinners chosen

for punishment after that Abomination

which stinks still in God's

nostrils very well

Moses if I was a sinner it was because I

was

unenlightened what excuse can you

find excuse

death do we need an excuse to sustain

the law the law which sustains the life

of man it's a strange way of serving

life killing men was my own brother you

killed do you know that a man who had

his faults like all men dead because of

some nonsense about the Sabbath for it

is nonsense and all the world knows it

for

nonsense all the

world all the little world of the

stupid who disdained the

vision

since we speak of your

brother let me remind you that my own

sister I'll will not speak of

it it comes clearer now it is not the

law it is

Revenge no

death vengeance is for the Lord God in

his own

time sit

down for me it is the

law and the enforcing of the law yes by

murder if you will have it that way

since you believe that just execution is

murder until men cease to be

ignorant until man begins to know that

his good is the good of the

commonality and the good of the

commonality is enshrined in

law

you will learn death

then you will be made to learn perhaps

you are learning

already you the most obdurate of All My

Children yes yes I am learning one

thing remember thou keep holy the

Sabbath day

why of all men that walk the earth was I

chosen to lead them

to a fair land which is none of their

deserving why was I chosen to bring them

the

law law which they

despise and

spurn oh

Lord I speak to you from the

heart as I have ever

spoken I am

sick and weary of the burden of rule

what would you do if I were to renounce

it

now would you strike me down as you have

struck down

others well perhaps I am willing to be

struck

down to lie at

peace in the

earth I am willing to defy you as others

have am I not free to do

so am I not a man like other

men clothed in the Garment of Liberty of

choice and

yet I cannot forget the humility of the

servant before the

master in humility I ask

it let thy servant

go

Moses Moses I will ride you as a

Horseman rides a

horse in spite of your doubts you will

bear the burden to Life's end you will

lead your people to the land that is

Promised since that is my will but you

yourself will never eat or drink of the

fruit of that promise I will never let

you go

but I will never let you

enter nor will any of your generation

sick with the doubt of the Lord's

promise enter that

land I have

spoken they're coming they're cominging

they're

[Applause]

coming

[Applause]

w

[Music]

[Applause]

we entered the land as you instructed us

and indeed it flows with milk and honey

here we took these in the Valley named

eshkol esol a cluster of grapes well

named you see you see you foolish

children the land is exactly as the Lord

said it would be flowing with milk and

honey Laden with all manner of fruit and

the land is

ours the land is not

ours there are people dwelling there in

Walled cities strong people warlike the

children of anak Giants we saw them the

Hittites jebusites the amorites the

mountain people and by the see there are

the Canaanites they are too strong for

us we haven't the numbers we haven't the

weapons this is

nonsense we move through the land like

Greyhounds they never saw us look we've

been through all that land it's a land

that would swallow us as a toad swell as

aat the sons of anak are giants Giants

do you hear me compared with them we are

grasshoppers it sounds terrible I don't

like it to come so far to be killed what

about my wife and the children nobody

told us we were going to have a war some

Promised Land better the desert better

Egypt egpt to

Egypt better Egypt yes back to Egypt

mes listen to me

Moses we have suffered much with hardier

murma we were given a promise that we

would walk into this land of yours

without trouble

and now you bring us into this land to

Fall by the sword to see our wives and

children cut to

pieces I say this to you now and I say

it on behalf of

all I would to God we died in the land

of Egypt I vote that we choose a new

captain one who will lead us back to

Egypt yes and you Captain listen you

Captain listen to me I say this yes the

land we pass through Is Our Land no it's

not our land do not fear any of the

people of that land we can chew them up

like bread the Lord is with us not with

them and do not be afraid fight we won

fight anyone stop no we won't fight we

don't believe

you what I say I say on behalf of my

peers but I do not say it lightly come

to the point this point that we're at

the limit of endurance of your

tyranny

Moses I speak truth and you know it when

I say when I say you made your claim to

rule through a special

Holiness well we're all holy we're all

equally of Jehovah why do you raise

yourself above us why do you pretend

that you're God's special favorite an

empty and filthy pretense which some of

us have had the courage to explode your

rule is over Moses or soon will be we

have the support of all the tribes

including the Levites the Levites are

ready what

precisely does this new leadership

propose to lead the tribes back to Egypt

with the Levites carrying their banners

of the head not into slavery though to

make out of power a treaty with the

pharaoh to demand that the god of the

Israelites be of equal status with Horus

and ra be silent

blasphemer worse than blasphemer

Abomination you speak of

rule my brother was a prince of Egypt if

he had wished to rule would he have left

his kingdom for this desert his Palace

for a ragged tent high priest another

Pretender to the seat of power well we

will rest this power away from you this

Tabernacle you use for holding the

people down we can provide made our own

[Applause]

priests I confess my failure as a

teacher I have taught you

nothing God

will or God chooses men men do not

choose God God CHS us the choice he has

made through

signs where are your signs

signs you mean tricks where is your sign

of authority you murderous tricks to

show us the final trick the bellies of

the people crammed with bread the sick

and the old at peace in a land too long

promised I Spit on Your Authority I have

warned you often in the past aan I swear

to you that this shall be the final

warning seek not to rise above the Lord

your God to all of you I say tempt not

the

[Applause]

Lord

[Applause]

[Applause]

prepare to leave for

Egypt to

Egypt

Lis officers offices of the Levites

prepare to move

out

Ruben Ruben officers of the Levites

prare to

move over here of the time of sim to

move the

CLE hurry

upj Lord has

spoken thus saith the

Lord none who has seen my glory Sor and

not

believed shall see the land I promised

his

father since you refuse the land over

which I raised my hand that you might

inhabit it you shall not

enter you shall return to the

desert your

children they will see the land that you

have

scorned you will

not your

children those who were newly born would

we left

Egypt shall wander in the desert for 40

years and bear the burden of your lack

of

Fai while your bodies will be consumed

in the

desert pay he to my words you shall know

once for all that God chooses and men do

not the god of the people speaks through

them that the people have chosen what

the people have chosen is wise and

prudent

and we choose to return to Egypt and

enjoy its peace and its fatness will our

God say

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

nay

yet Mercy is infinite death and at least

let us believe

so I shall miss your thorn in my

[Music]

side that generation that had heard

heard the word of the Lord and scorned

it the generation of the old one by one

fell in the desert leaving their bones

for the sun to

bleach and their children carried the

burden of the lack of faith of the old

wandering in the desert missing the way

to the land of the

promise soon there were few of the

doubters and those who had wavered and

these few were

dying

there is no

pain your

leg just feels

asleep but the fever is not

asleep the fever is very much awake

it'll be better when we reach the

Oasis

trees running

water

fruit

elazar don't talk sleep

elazar yes yes

Father

you you know what must be done I I must

take your

place you must take over my

office Alazar the high priest

your mother will be

proud Aon please do not reproach me no

no

reproach it is a task and a

glory which he and his sons and his

son's Sons must performed to the end of

our

race a task and a glory don't talk like

that it seems

that we all be together in Canan the

journey is not yet over

Eliza we still face many bitter enemies

a land promised to us by the Lord will

not be granted so

easily try to sleep

now

[Music]

I speak of him as my brother first my

very voice my other heart of the House

of Israel none was braver none more

steadfast his mouth was of gold and the

spirit of the Lord burned in

him now he has gathered to his father

fathers may the Lord grant him

rest so be

it oh

Lord how long can the race

last we are

dying the old men are dying

can the young

survive can they carry the

[Music]

[Music]

torch and the the young did carry the

torch or rather the sling and the stone

and a thunder of stones was Unleashed on

their

enemies for their enemies were the

tribes and Nations that lay ranged

between them and Canaan the land of the

promise Horizon after Horizon of foes to

be

vanquished and then at last no foes only

a mountain and a river and a time of

quiet

for the dividing of the land that lay

Beyond The Tribe of Benjamin here tribe

of Ephraim from Jericho up to Batel your

new home but this is Desert it's unfair

the lots have been drawn in the presence

of Moses Us in we SE Justice women what

can women want let us

in it is irregular we want to see women

stay with their children and their pots

and pans it is highly irregular many

things are irregular hyp priest

including what we are here to speak

about if it is

permitted you are are you not the

daughters of

uh forgive me an old man's memory or

lack of it I am Mahala and these are my

sisters come

on we are the daughters of zad now dead

ah yes

zelop good man I think

he was slain in battle was he not with

his sons our brothers we are without

menfolk thanks to your Holy Wars have a

care woman we are women without menfolk

the name of our father has disappeared

from your records what will happen with

his portion of the promised land it is

clearly laid down that the son shall

inherit no Sons no inheritance this is

Injustice it is the law this is always

the answer it is the law it is the law

and what if the law be unjust one does

not question the law of God I am

questioning it you are questioning it

rightly peace SEL asard

peace and my response to the questioning

is this if a man die and leave no

Sons then the inheritance of the father

shall pass to the daughters but this is

an Abomination a

heresy the Lord has not offered to

strike me dead elazar nor will

he Daughters of Israel shall have your

inheritance who is it it is I elazar

your

[Music]

nephew for a moment there

I I mistook you for your father Aaron he

was a good father I would be happy to be

like him you will be you will be because

of him you will bring forth generations

of

priests that will continue for thousands

of years to

come elazar yes my Lord why was the

promised land denied to your father in

me the Lord

said because of your sin of

Doubt but I must confess

I I have never been able to understand

the real significance of those

[Music]

words

Aaron what was our real

Sin yours I I think I

know you love the People Too Much oh all

the

people been

mine did I love them too

little I have always loved the

law more than mankind for whom it was

destined oh

Lord I would like to cross the

river and set my feet on the land beyond

the Jordan

[Music]

is the Lord Is Our

God The Lord Is Our

God the Lord is

[Music]

one the Lord

is happy Art Thou o

Israel who is like unto thee Oh people

saved by the Lord The Shield of thy help

and the sword of thy

Excellency there is none like unto your

God who rides upon the

heavens the Eternal God is your refuge

and underneath are the Everlasting

Arms

[Music]

[Music]

[Music]

now

Moses I will show you their

[Music]

inheritance

look

now all the land of Gilead unto

Dan all the Napal and the land of

Ephraim and

Manasseh all the land of Judah unto the

utmost

sea in the plain of the valley of

Jericho the city of palm trees unto

zor this is the land which I swore unto

Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob saying

I will give it unto thy

seed I have caused thee to see it Moses

with thine own

eyes Thou shalt not go over into the

land you are a hard

and unforgiving

God

unforgiving if you but knew

I have sworn and I have made my Covenant

with

man I shall never again destroy him for

his

sins yet I shall torment him with

dissatisfaction for only in me shall he

be

[Music]

satisfied and now Moses your task is

[Music]

finished

[Music]

[Music]

the Lord thy God is with thee

wheresoever thou

goest

[Music]

is

[Music]