Prince of Egypt... Moses gets the people out of Egypt via the power of God. Interesting part of Pharaoh's first response to Moses:
7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves.
8And the atale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
9Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
Pharaoh states that the people are being lazy and thus need more work put on them. This is the same statement that is made by some of the Nazi guards in Victor Frankel's Man's Search for Meaning.
Pharaoh is demonstrating a part of the human id. When the motivation to do something is gone, the person will not do it. Part of the natural man is a lack of motivation to follow God's commands, and so, when the plagues and chastisements of the Lord are removed from Egypt, with it is removed the motivation to follow God. This suggests that such motivation must come from something other than chastisement or fear, but rather love.
The children of Israel are removed from Egypt, and the Feast of Unleavened Bread is established. The people murmur because of want of food and water, and something other than manna. And apparently get pretty angry about it, because Moses comments that they are near the point of stoning him (17:4). He fights with Amalek, then receives the 10 Mandamientos from Dios.
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