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An Old Testament story about the great prophet Moses and the liberation of the Jewish people from Egyptian captivity. Moses was born at a time when Pharaoh had ordered the killing of all newborn boys of Jewish origin. To save him, his mother placed the baby in a basket of reeds and sent him down the Nile. Pharaoh's daughter found the child, adopted him, and raised him alongside Ramses - the future Pharaoh. Many years later, having become a man, Moses flees Egypt, and then returns there at God's command to free his people from the chains of slavery...