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His tortured mind wondering if they call the memory of past triumphs, or wail foreboding of disasters yet to come, or whether the desert's hot breath has melted his reason into madness.

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

You can hear this line at 01:45:30.999 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- He is driven forward, always forward, by a god unknown toward a land unseen.

- Into the molten wilderness of sin, where granite sentinels stand as towers of living death to bar his way.

- Each night brings the black embrace of loneliness.

- In the mocking whisper of the wind he hears the echoing voices of the dark.

(voices echoing on wind) Moses! Moses! Moses! Moses! Moses!

- His tortured mind wondering if they call the memory of past triumphs, or wail foreboding of disasters yet to come, or whether the desert's hot breath has melted his reason into madness.

- He cannot cool the burning kiss of thirst upon his lips, nor shade the scorching fury of the sun.

- All about is desolation.

- He can neither bless nor curse the power that moves him, for he does not know from where it comes.

- Learning that it can be more terrible to live than to die, he is driven onward through the burning crucible of desert, where holy men and prophets are cleansed and purged, for God's great purpose.

- Until, at last, at the end of human strength, beaten into the dust from which he came, the metal is ready for the Maker's hand.

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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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