Our intention was not to create a story, but to be worthy of the divinely inspired story created 3000 years ago: the five books of Moses.

16 seconds sound clip from the The Ten Commandments (1956) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:03:36.016 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Philo wrote at the time that Jesus of Nazareth walked the Earth, and Josephus wrote some 50 years later and watched the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.

- These historians had access to documents long since destroyed, or perhaps lost, like the Dead Sea Scrolls.

- The theme of this picture is whether men are to be ruled by God's law, or whether they are to be ruled by the whims of a dictator like Ramses.

- Are men the property of the state, or are they free souls under God?

- This same battle continues throughout the world today.

- Our intention was not to create a story, but to be worthy of the divinely inspired story created 3000 years ago: the five books of Moses.

- The story takes 3 hours and 39 minutes to unfold.

- There will be an intermission.

- Thank you for your attention.

- And God said, Let there be light. And there was light. And from this light, God created life upon Earth.

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