Lilia: Water, Noble One? Baka: No, wine... the wine of beauty. Lilia: What beauty can my lord find in these mud pits? Baka: A lotus flower blooms in the Nile's gray mud. Dathan, she will do well as a house slave. Lilia: Do not take me from my people!...
Nefretiri: Oh, Moses, Moses, you stubborn, splendid, adorable fool!
Bithiah: A conquerer, already conquered? Moses: The first face I look for and the last I find. [as Moses saw Bithiah, he knelt to her, to honor her] Moses: Mother! Bithiah: I was thanking the gods for your safe return. But I find you in grave danger ...
Moses: Does your god live on this mountain? Sephora: Sinai is His high place, His temple. Moses: If this god is God, he would live on every mountain, in every valley. He would not be the god of Ishmael or Israel alone, but of all men. It is said he c...
Lilia: Joshua. We must have hope. God will send us the deliverer. Joshua: Hope. On the heels of every hope walks Dathan.
Moses: Would you bury the old woman alive in a tomb of rock? Yochabel: Wise and noble One, It caught. I have not the strength to free myself. Moses: Your shoulders should not bear a burden, old woman. Yochabel: The Lord has renewed my strength and li...
Joshua: God of Abraham, four hundred years we have waited. Moses: Pharaoh's soldiers won't wait so long. Joshua: The Almighty has heard our cries from bondage. You are the Chosen One! Moses: I know nothing of your god. Joshua: He knows you, Moses. He...
Dathan: Remember, Joshua, of her own free will, she's mine!
Moses: Great one, I bring you Ethiopia. [Trumpets play, the two Ethiopians stepped forward] Rameses: Command them to kneel before Pharaoh. Moses: Command what you have conquered, my brother.
Rameses: [to Nefretiri] You are going to be mine, all mine, like my dog or my horse or my falcon. Only I will love you more and trust you less.
Nefretiri: But I have saved your son, Moses. Moses: It is not my son who will die. It is... it is the firstborn of Egypt. It is your son, Nefretiri! Nefretiri: No. You would not dare strike Pharaoh's son! Moses: In the hardness of his heart, Pharaoh ...
Rameses: His god - IS God. [Rameses' last line, and final scene of Pharoah and Nefretiri]
[Nefretiri and Sephora look upon one another for the only time] Sephora: The queen of Egypt is beautiful, as he told me.
Memnet: What have you found? Bithiah: The answer to my prayers! Memnet: [in light humor] You prayed for a basket? Bithiah: No. I prayed for a son. Memnet: Your husband is in the House of the Dead. Bithiah: And he has asked the Nile god to bring me th...
Moses: Will you swear in the name of this God that you are not my mother? Yochabel: We do not even know His name. Moses: Then look into my eyes and tell me you are not my mother. Yochabel: [shaking her head] Oh, Moses, Moses, I cannot. I cannot. [Yoc...
Gershom: [Moses and Sephora are now parents] Did the little boy die in the desert, my father? Moses: No. God brought Ishmael and his mother Hagar into a good land. Gershom: The same God who lives on the mountain? Moses: It may be, my son. Sephora: Mo...
Bithiah: I am the Pharaoh's daughter, and this is my son. He shall be reared in my house as the prince of the two lands. Memnet: My mother and her mother before her were branded into the Pharaoh's service. I will not see you make this son of slaves a...
Moses: [Moses opened the door, after Bithiah knocked] Bithiah. Bithiah: In fear of your God, they have set me free. May a stranger enter? Moses: There are no strangers among those who seek God's mercy. Bithiah: My bearers? Moses: All who thirst for f...
