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And man was given dominion over all things upon this Earth, and the power to choose between good and evil, but each sought to do his own will because he knew not the light of God's law.

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

You can hear this line at 00:08:36.556 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- 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.

- And man was given dominion over all things upon this Earth, and the power to choose between good and evil, but each sought to do his own will because he knew not the light of God's law.

- Man took dominion over man. The conquered were made to serve the conqueror. The weak were made to serve the strong. And freedom was gone from the world.

- So did the Egyptians cause the children of Israel to serve with rigor.

- And their lives were made bitter with hard bondage, and their cry came up unto God and God heard them.

- And cast into Egypt, into the lowly hut of Amram and Yochabel, the seed of a man upon whose mind and heart would be written God's law and God's commandments.

- One man to stand alone against an empire.

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Actors: Charlton Heston (Moses), Yul Brynner (Ramses II), Anne Baxter (Nefretiri), Edward G. Robinson (Dathan), Yvonne De Carlo (Sephora)

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