Bithiah: They will stop for me! Mered: A charging chariot knows no rank!
Narrator: 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,...
Tuya: Oh, Memnet, you're only happy when you're miserable.
Moses: [to Jethro's daughters, as they were washing his feet] Never did a lost sheep have so many shepherds.
Bithiah: [just after Bithiah drew Infant Moses, off of the Nile River] You will be the glory of Egypt, my son, mighty in words and deeds. Kings shall bow before you. Your name will live when the pyramids are dust. And... because I drew you from the w...
Moses: [just after Moses defended himself, against Rameses' accusations, he opens a curtain, to Sethi] Let your own image proclaim my loyalty for a thousand years. Sethi: Superb!
[during the plague of the death of Egypt's firstborn] Rameses' son: My father. [in a weak voice, this was also Rameses' son's last line] Rameses: My son. Nefretiri: Your own curse is on him.
Nefretiri: If you want to help your people, come back to the palace. Moses: And hide the truth from Sethi... that I am Hebrew and a slave? Nefretiri: The truth would break his dear old heart and send Bithiah into exile or death. Think of us and stop ...
Yochabel: God of Abraham, take my child into Thy hands that he may live to Thy service. [Little Miriam bowed her head and prayed silently, while Yochabel prayed verbally] Little Miriam: But, mother, we have not even given him a name. Yochabel: God wi...
[the 'stick to cobra' combat had just occurred] Moses: You gave me this staff to rule over scorpions and serpents, but God made it a rod to rule over kings. Hear His word, Rameses, and obey. Rameses: Obey? Moses, Moses. Are there no magicians in Egyp...
Moses: I'll not leave a man to die in the mud. Simon: Thank you, my son... but death is better than bondage, for my days are ended and my prayer unanswered. Moses: What prayer, old man? Simon: That before death closed my eyes, I might behold the deli...
Rameses: You have rats' ears and a ferret's nose. Dathan: To use in your service, son of Pharaoh. Rameses: Add to them the eyes of a weasel and find me this deliverer.
Rameses: [banishing Moses to the desert] Here is your king's scepter, and here is your kingdom, with the scorpion, the cobra, and the lizard for subjects. Free them, if you will. Leave the Hebrews to me.
Dathan: Moses has words. Pharaoh has spears!
Pentaur: He opens the waters before them, and he bars our way with fire! Let us go from this place! Men cannot fight against a God! Rameses: Better to die in battle with a God than live in shame.
Moses: The Lord of Hosts will do battle for us. Behold His mighty hand!
Moses: Go, proclaim liberty throughout all the lands, unto all the inhabitants thereof.
Dathan: Where could I bring you except to Egypt? Israelites: Where there is death? Dathan: No, where there's food!
