- The stiff-necked slaves die more willingly than bend their backs in your service.
- Why?

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

You can hear this line at 00:23:54.775 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- See to their comfort.

- Divine One, here is the full count of Ethiopia's tribute. Bearers!

- I am sending down the Nile 20 full barges of such wealth as you see here. Logs of ebony and trees of myrrh, all for your new treasure city.

- A handsome tribute indeed, Moses.

- Unfortunately, I have no new treasure city.

- And you will have none.

- The stiff-necked slaves die more willingly than bend their backs in your service.

- Why?

- They believe a deliverer has come to lead them from their bondage.

- Deliverer? Deliverer?

- He has been foretold by every falling star since my father's time.

- Now, you make him an excuse for your failure to build my city.

- I am not one to make excuses.

[...]

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