The Ten Commandments (1956) · 94 quotes
Tied for 7th most-quoted character in The Ten Commandments (1956): in 7 of its 94 quotes
Most scenes with: Moses (2)
What have you found?
Bithiah The answer to my prayers!
You prayed for a basket?
Bithiah No, I prayed for a son.
Your husband is in the house of the dead.
Bithiah And he has asked the Nile God to bring me this beautiful boy.
Do you know the pattern of this cloth?
Bithiah If my son is wrapped in it, it is a royal robe!
Why have you come here?
Bithiah Because Moses will come here.
My son?
Bithiah No, my son. And that’s all he must know.
My lips might deny him, great one, but my eye never could.
Bithiah You shall leave Goshen, you and your family, tonight.
We are Levites, appointed shepherds of Israel. We cannot leave our people.
Bithiah Would you take from Moses all that I have given him? Would you undo all that I have done for him? I have put the throne of Egypt within his reach. What can you give him in its place?
I gave him life.
Bithiah I gave him love!
Bithiah In fear of your God, they have set me free. May a stranger enter?
There are no strangers among those who seek God’s mercy.
Bithiah My bearers?
All who thirst for freedom may come with us.
Bithiah They will stop for me!
A charging chariot knows no rank!
I lost him when he found his god.
Bithiah You will be the glory of Egypt, my son. Mighty in words and deeds. Kings shall bow before you. Your name will live on when the pyramids are dust. And…because I drew you from the water, you shall be called Moses. Moses! Moses!
Great Pharaoh...I stand in the shadow of your justice.
Whose work is this?
I warned you of his treason, my father. Judge now if I spoke truly. The evil star foretold him as the destroyer of Egypt and deliverer of slaves.
It is not possible. A prince of Egypt?
He is not a prince of Egypt. He is not the son of your sister. He is the son of Hebrew slaves. [The crowd is shocked]
Speak...my son.
I am the son of Amram and Yochabel, Hebrew slaves. [The crowd is shocked again]
Bithiah My brother, it was I who deceived you, not Moses. He was only a child.
Leave me. I shall not see your face again. [Rameses orders Pentaur to take Bithiah away from him; to Moses] Moses...come to me. [Moses approaches him] I do not care who you are or what you are or what they may say about you, but I want to hear from your own lips that you are not a traitor, that you would not lead these people in revolt against me. Tell me, Moses. I will believe you.
I am not this deliverer you fear. It would take more than a man to lead the slaves from bondage. It would take a god. But if I could free them, I would.
What has turned you against me? From the time my sister brought you to the court, I loved you, reared you, set you before my own son, because I saw in you a worth and a greatness above other men.
No son could have more love for you than I.
Then why are you forcing me to destroy you? What evil has done this to you?
The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit and hope and faith - only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a God, He did not mean this to be so. What I have done...I was compelled to do.
So be it. What I do now, I am compelled to do.
No. No.
Rameses...Egypt shall be yours. Hear what I say, Rameses. When I cross the River of Death, you will be...Pharaoh in Egypt. Harden yourself against subordinates. Put no faith in a brother. Have no friend. Trust no woman. I protected the helpless. I nourished the orphan.
Great One! [hugs Seti]
But he who ate my bread and called me father would make rebellion against me.
What manner of death do you decree for him? [Some people in the crowd say "death" as a possible answer]
I cannot speak it. Let it be as you will.
I will not live if you must die! [hugs Moses's leg and sobs]
The feet of a Hebrew slave is not the right place for the next queen of Egypt. [to guards] Take him away. [The guards lead the arrested Moses away towards the exit]
Let the name of Moses be stricken from every book and tablet. Stricken from all pylons and obelisks, stricken from every monument of Egypt. Let the name of...Moses be unheard and unspoken, erased from the memory of men...for all time.
