A golden harvest to the threshers, a grain safe to feed the masters, bitterness to feed the slaves, and to feed the brick pits, straw, carried on the bowed backs of women down into the never-ending valley of toil and agony, stretching mile after mile.

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

You can hear this line at 01:08:01.211 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Forgive me, Bithiah.

- God of our fathers, who has appointed an end to the bondage of Israel, blessed am I among all mothers in the land, for my eyes have beheld thy deliverer.

- Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn, making straw for the bricks of Egypt, nor spare the arms that endlessly winnow the grain in the wind to separate the wheat from the chaff...

- Wheat borne stolidly on the backs of countless slaves from the heavy-laden Nile boats to the teeming shore.

- Endlessly they plod beneath the sheaves of wheat, and endlessly return for more.

- A golden harvest to the threshers, a grain safe to feed the masters, bitterness to feed the slaves, and to feed the brick pits, straw, carried on the bowed backs of women down into the never-ending valley of toil and agony, stretching mile after mile.

- An inferno of mud-soaked bodies, where the treaders' feet churn clay and straw into the mixture for the Pharaoh's bricks.

- And everywhere the lash of watchful taskmasters ready to sting the backs of the weary.

- Blades chopping straw. Mattocks chopping clay. A ceaseless cycle of unending drudgery.

- From the mixing feet of treaders to the pouring hands of brick molders moves the constant stream of mud, the lowly seed of tall cities, day after day, year after year, century after century.

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