<P> Moses makes his way across the desert to a well in Midian . After defending seven sisters from Amalekites, Moses is housed with the girls' father Jethro, a Bedouin sheik, who worships the God of Abraham . Moses marries Jethro's eldest daughter Sephora . </P> <P> Moses finds Joshua, who has escaped hard labor . Moses sees the burning bush on the summit of Mount Sinai and hears the voice of God . Moses returns to Egypt to free the Hebrews . </P> <P> Moses comes before Rameses, now pharaoh, to win the slaves' freedom, turning his staff into a cobra . Jannes performs the same trick with his staves, but Moses's snake is superior . Rameses prohibits straw from being provided to the Hebrews to make their bricks . Nefretiri rescues Moses from being stoned to death by the Hebrews . He tells her he is married . </P> <P> Egypt is visited by plagues . Moses turns the river Nile to blood at a festival of Khnum and brings burning hail down upon Pharaoh's palace . Moses warns him the next plague to fall upon Egypt will be summoned by Pharaoh himself . Enraged at the plagues, Rameses orders all first - born Hebrews to die . Instead, a cloud of death kills all the firstborn of Egypt, including the child of Rameses and Nefretiri . Angrily, Pharaoh exiles the Hebrews, which begins the Exodus from Egypt . </P>

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