Joshua Here! Water lily!
My name is Lilia.
Joshua To me you are a lily, and I want water.
Played by John Derek 
The Ten Commandments (1956) · 94 quotes
The Ten Commandments (1956) · 94 quotes
5th most-quoted character in The Ten Commandments (1956): in 14 of its 94 quotes
Most scenes with: Moses (9), Sephora (3), Lilia (2)
Scenes with Joshua
14 scenes Joshua Joshua 
We use the old ones for greasing the stones. If they are killed it is no loss.
Are you a master builder or a master butcher?
If we stop moving stones for every grease woman who falls, the city will not rise.
Overseer
If the slaves are not driven they will not work.
Joshua If their work lags it is because they are not fed.
You look strong enough.
Joshua I am a stone cutter. The pharaoh likes his images cut deep.
Moses has words. Pharaoh has spears!
You know it is death to strike an Egyptian.
Joshua I know it.
Yet you struck him. Why?
Joshua To free the old woman.
What is she to you?
Joshua An old woman.
Lord Moses, send him to his death!
The man has courage. You do not speak like a slave.
Joshua God made man. Man made slaves.
Which god?
Joshua The God of Abraham, the Almighty God!
If your God is Almighty, why does He leave you in bondage?
Joshua He will choose the hour of our freedom and the man who will deliver us!
Difficulty with the slaves, my brother?
None that could not be cures by a ration of grain and a day of rest.
A day of rest?
When your horses tire, they’re rested. When they hunger, they’re fed.
Slaves draw brick and stone. My horses draw the next Pharaoh.
Is there any grain stored here in Goshen?
None that you would dare take, my brother.
Joshua The temple granaries are full.
Joshua I will…great prince.
I warn you, Moses, the temple grain belongs to the gods.
What the gods can digest will not sour in the belly of a slave.
You make no outcry, Joshua, but you will; you will cry for the mercy of death.
Joshua One day you will listen to the cry of slaves.
This is not that day, Joshua.
Joshua Praise God I have found you!
Joshua? We thought you dead.
Joshua In the copper mines of Geber, the living are dead.
Joshua Is the holy mountain forbidden to men?
Yes. And I am afraid for him.
Joshua [Seeing Moses]
Then he is more than man, for look…
Joshua Did He ask something of you?
That I go to Egypt.
Joshua You are God’s messenger! He has set the day of deliverance. I will get water and bread that we may leave at once.
But Egypt holds death for you.
If it be His will.
Where He sends you, I shall go. Your God is my God.
Joshua I will lead men against the armory at Migdol and get swords for the people!
It is not by the sword that He will deliver His people, but by the staff of a shepherd.
Joshua They told me you were dead.
To all I love, Joshua, I am dead.
Joshua If it is not forbidden to look upon the breath of pestilence, then see, for it is here.
[Eleazar begins to rush to the door, but Moses grabs his arm]
Do not look, Eleazar. [To Joshua] Close the door, Joshua, and let death pass.
Miriam
Death is all around us!
Joshua But it passes those who have believed the Lord.
Always remember, Eleazar, He passed over your house.
Caleb
Do you hear thunder? Over the sea?
Joshua No, it comes from the desert. That’s the thunder of horses!
Joshua There is a noise of war in the camp.
It is not the noise of war. It is the noise of song and revelry.
[Last lines]
The Lord was angry with me because I disobeyed Him by the waters of strife. And He said unto me, "Behold the new land with thine eyes, for thou shalt not cross over this River Jordan".
Then I shall stay.
I am called by the Lord, Sephora. I go alone.
Look, Moses. The people have come to the River Jordan. In the ark, they carry the law you brought them. You taught them not to live by bread alone. You are God's torch that lights the way to freedom. I love you.
Joshua. [gives the staff and the Levite cloth to Joshua] Joshua, I charge you and strengthen you, for you shall go over Jordan to lead the people.
Joshua As for me and my house, we shall serve the Lord.
Mered, give me the books. Eleazar, set these five books in the Ark of the Covenant by the tablets of the Ten Commandments, which the Lord restored unto us. [bids farewell] Go, proclaim liberty throughout all the lands, unto all the inhabitants thereof! [walks away to the top of Mount Nebo]
