Ten Commandments
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Continuity mistake: When Moses leads the Hebrews from Egypt, he pauses before them to deliver a little speech before they head out into the desert. He faces the camera and lifts his staff up with his left hand. But on the cutaway shot from behind, he is holding the staff in his right hand.

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Continuity mistake: When Moses returns from Ethiopia amidst great fanfare, he's wearing two golden wings crisscrossed across his chest. At first they are crisscrossed with his left wing over his right, but when Moses kneels in front of Sethi, the wings are crisscrossed the opposite way, with his right wing over the left. These golden wings continue to switch positions repeatedly in the following shots. (00:21:20)

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Continuity mistake: When Moses confronts his Egyptian mother Bithiah with the Hebrew piece of cloth, she is beading on an Egyptian loom. During this scene, the string that she is beading (the farthest to our right) first matches the height of the other strings. One shot later, there is suddenly more beads, making the string higher than the others. (00:57:40)

Continuity mistake: When the movie ends, Sephora rests against Moses' shoulder and places her left arm on his body. From the angle shot from behind, she is away from him and her left arm is signaling the horizon. Back to the front shot, and she is in the previous position.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: Before Moses parts the sea waters, he cries, "Behold his mighty hand!" and extends both arms, his staff covered by his cloak. From the angle shot from behind, the staff is now over the cloak.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: When Bithiah brings the cradle ashore the way the towel on the left is folded changes between shots.

Sacha

Continuity mistake: The distance between Rameses and Moses alternates from elbow to elbow to about three feet apart as the shots change when the duo are facing Seti during the Ethiopian tribute scene.

Scott215

Continuity mistake: When Nefertiri and Moses are saying their goodbyes in the cave, his shackled right hand starts to stroke the upper left side of Nefertiri's hair, but the next cut shows Moses' hand lower down.

Scott215

Continuity mistake: At the end when Moses reaches out to the tablets, in the first shot he has nothing in his hand, second shot he has something black which at first looks like sunglasses, and in the third shot his hand is empty again.

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Suggested correction: Though it surely gives that impression, as soon as he opens his fingers, one can notice it is a visual effect caused by the shadows.

Sacha

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Continuity mistake: When Sephorah first talks to Moses, she is touching the rope holding the bucket over the well. She's not touching it anymore in the next shot.

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Continuity mistake: When Moses is exposed as a Hebrew, Sethi is holding his scepter up in his left arm, and Nefretiri tosses her feather to the ground. In the next shot, Sethi's scepter has vanished.

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Continuity mistake: When Nefretiri is told by Memnet that there will be a Hebrew on the Egyptian throne, she lowers the cloth that she is holding. In the next shot, she is holding it up higher again.

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Continuity mistake: When Moses asks Rameses where extra grain can be found to feed the slaves, look at Joshua. In the next shot, a guard suddenly appears in front of him.

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Continuity mistake: When Moses and Joshua are reunited and Moses denies God's purpose for him (he says "I am not the man"), Moses has his arm around Joshua's back. In the next shot, Moses is only touching Joshua on the shoulder.

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Continuity mistake: When Seti orders that The Deliverer be summoned, he hands the bottle that Rameses gave him earlier without looking at him. In the next shot, he is looking at Rameses.

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Continuity mistake: When Seti is told by Rameses that he has caught The Deliverer, Seti is looking at Rameses. In the next shot, Seti is looking straight ahead.

Other mistake: In the Bible, Moses had two sons, not one (Gershom) as depicted in the film. He had both sons in Midian before he came back to Egypt to redeem the Jews.

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Suggested correction: Differences from the source material are not mistakes. This is an adaptation where Moses only has one son.

This isn't a valid correction. It's not an "adaptation." Otherwise, you could excuse anything. Moses could be called Bob, by your logic.

Bishop73

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Moses: Those who will not live by The Law shall die by The Law!

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Trivia: Even though Martha Scott played Charlton Heston's mother in this film, she was only 11 years older than Heston.

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Question: When Ramses is getting ready to go after Moses, Nefretiri hands him the sword and says to come back with Moses' blood on it. Why would Nefretiri want Moses dead, since she had been in love with him for a long time?

Answer: She was a woman scorned. Yes, she loved Moses, but Moses turned his life away from the royal life of Egypt (and Nefertiri's love) to be with his people, the Hebrews, and serve the will of God. These were far more important reasons to Moses than living a lush life as a prince of a people he was not connected to by blood or lineage.

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Answer: The final plague was the death of all first born male children. It included her son, but she refused to believe it. She believed Moses would would protect him from the curse. Even when he was dying in her arms, she said, my son will not die.

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