I'm reminded of a joke I heard once. One Sunday while on their way home a mother asked her son what he had learned in Sunday school that day. Her son explained how he learned that in order to escape Pharaoh the Hebrews quickly built a bridge over the Red Sea. And just before Pharaoh and his army could cross they blew up the bridge causing Pharaoh and his army to drown. His more than worried mother asked him "is that really what the teacher had told him?" and her son replied "No, but you wouldn't had believed the version my teacher told!" That feels like Hollywood films these days when it comes to anything remotely Biblical. Especially when it comes to films like these.
This movie was never meant to be Biblically authentic. They portrayed God as a jealous tyrant & cruel being no more mature than a child. This movie was actually a full mockery.
That's what happens when studios give atheists free run to make stuff up and not hire real believers to make Biblical epics and what's with the whitewashing espcially it's getting really ridiculous NOW.
Truly great biblical interpretation of this movie. Lack of biblical knowledge allows most people to rely on director/secular interpretation since many of them are secular anyway. Good job.
Completely spot on. Like you pointed out, it was good to watch visually but knowing this biblical story fairly well... it was hard to sit through. Great job.
Great review man! Thank you for being so detailed, I was on the fence about seeing this, but held off because I was concerned about its accuracy. Good to know I was right to be concerned lol. I'll just watch the cartoon again ;) cheers!
The most two fatal errors was the doubtfullness of Moses(his lack of faith) and the portraying of God as a little angry child. What I missed: God in the shape of a cloud leading His people, Mose using his staff to part the Red Sea and a 5 star introduction of Pesach (which is portrayed poorly). Rid wrongly depicted Moses as an insecure rebel who vaguely tries to talk Ramses into letting the Hebrews go free. However the sceneographics were really well done.
As a believer in The God of the Hebrew Bible and My Lord and savior Jesus Christ. This movie hurts because I know it’s misleading millions of people on who God truly is. And also the great prophet Moses. Pray for the people who run these industries.
Not saying you’re wrong in how un-Biblically accurate the movie is but you’re definitely splitting hairs on a few things. I’m not too worried about the dates and numbers of people (i.e the chariots). Them not getting all of that spot on doesn’t really affect the overall story. Like, also, so what if they show the pyramids or that the current pharaoh died before he left Egypt. Same goes for Moses age or who raised him. I personally liked how they had the Nile turn to blood. Still a miracle in the sense that it really can’t be explained how the alligators attacked like that and the blood spread but also helps give a bit of reality to it. Where I will agree the movies biggest error is is in Moses’ faith and relationship with God
Good job on showing that so many things were wrong in this movie. Could you level the sound in your video next time, i could barely hear the sound of the movie, unless i turned up the volume a lot, but then your voice blasted my ears.
Zipporah was the daughter of the Priest of Midian. Also called a Kushite, and a Kenite. We definitely know what Midian is, but Kenite and Kushite aren't quite certain. Midian was in Ancient Arabia.
That scripture in Exodus 12:40 about the 430 years can be a little misleading on the surface; the genealogy doesn't allow for 4 generations from Joseph's time to have lived 430 years in Egypt. A little research on that verse will show that older manuscripts say 'the dwelling of the Israelites who had dwelt in Canaan and Egypt was 430 years' and this begins when God made the covenant with Abraham as pointed out in Galatians 3:16 -"The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. The Scripture does not say, “and to seeds,” meaning many, but “and to your seed,” meaning One, who is Christ. 17 What I mean is this: The Law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to cancel the promise." If you count from the Abrahamic Covenant's beginning when Abram was 75 to when Jacob comes to Egypt at whatever age the Bible says, it's 215 years, so the Israelites were in Egypt for half the 430 years, and slaves for a little more than 80 years, it seems, since the slavery appears to have happened closer to Moses' birth.
The movie made him out to be a hero, who did god's bidding, and freed slaves. A man who saw a vision of god in a burning bush on a mountain, was a little bit out of sorts after the fact. People have worse reactions after a fender bender. I am truly perplexed at how Christians hated this film. A religion in which 90% openly admit they have never read their entire bible... ever. And 10% go with, hardly ever, to never read their holy book. No question there were artistic liberties taken as with all movies. The nitpicking though is hilarious. On the whole, Moses and the Christian god were painted in positive light. And people wonder why you get films like Kirk Cameron Saving Christmas.
The Prince of Egypt was much closer to the actual story, and there many secularists who love that movie as much as religious. Because, you know, it was both faithful (pun intended) and legitimately good. Most additions didn't take away from the original story like this one.
Without a doubt, you can't just unknowingly turn the stern but loving father into an insufferable, tyrannical, and outright vicious child. If this is GENUINELY how secularists believe how the plagues went down or similar, then they don't even remotely have an understanding of what they're talking about.
You could’ve mentioned it also began with the battle of Kadesh which is shockingly one of the most famous battles in history and it pretty much happened when Ramses was pharaoh end it went to one of the first peace treaty in history and it was Inaccurate on so many levels 😟
In the film one of the characters says "These people reproduce like it's a sport." Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if they did that because nowadays after work, most people just want to relax and do what they want to do, especially if their work was stressful. Making love may be a destressor, and if they made love a lot, of course they'd reproduce a lot.
Almost finished reading Exodus saw the movie and thought wow might be cool. Then watched this and was surprised to see what I remembered reading saying wait a second I thought I read.... haha Bible is absolute truth so felt like I learned something and will skip the movie and keep reading! Nice breakdown and new subscriber thanks for the breakdown - simple straightforward and appreciated!
The New Testament says Sinai was a mountain in Arabia. It doesn't say modern Saudi Arabia. Josephus, also writing in the 1st Century, when recounting the Exodus events, calls the land where Israelites settled in Egypt 'Goshen of Arabia' ('Gesem Arabia'). In the 1st Century Roman era at least, Arabia was considered to have extended all the way to the Eastern Nile Delta. The East side of The Gulf of Aqaba proposed here would've taken the Israelites into Ancient Midian.... The Bible records the various stages of their wilderness journeys. It never indicates they travelled to Midian. But wasn't Mt Sinai in Midian? The text states that Jethro brought Moses' sons and wife to visit him at Sinai. After helping Moses with some administrative tasks and worshipping and acknowledging Yahweh as the greatest of all gods upon seeing the Angelic Presence of the Pillar of Fire/Cloud and this massive swarm of freed slaves and mighty Egypt defeated, the text says "Jethro then returned to his own land." Serabit El-Khadim was called Du-Mofka by the Ancient Egyptians. It means 'Turquoise Mountain', and it was a mining site. It's identifiable with Biblical Dophkah, mentioned in the Book of Numbers 12 as a place Israel came to en route to Mt Sinai, and is in the central Sinai Peninsula or so, along the traditional route to Mt Sinai/Jebel Musa. Various other nearby sites carry similar memories of Exodus itinerary sites along this route, with springs and oases that add up to a picture that generally agrees with the Biblical description but better yet....there are decipherable inscriptions at Dophkah that have recently been found to read as Hebrew, one mentioning Manna gathering and another speaking of 'those who went astray after the Cow Goddess in their first year (of freedom)'. This establishes an Israelite slave presence at the site, adding a detail to the narrative not specified in the account: Israel was brought there to free the rest of their brothers still enslaved in the mines, and since the Bible says Dophkah was on the way to Sinai but AFTER the Sea Crossing, they couldn't have crossed the Gulf of Aqaba.
Exodus 12:40 in most English Bibles is often misunderstood. In the most ancient copies of the account, it says "The dwelling (as alien residents) of the Sons of Israel, who had dwelt in Egypt and Canaan, was 430 years." Paul says in Galatians 3 that 'the Covenant God made with Abraham was not invalidated by the Covenant He made with Israel 430 years later at Mt Sinai'. The genealogy of the Israelites' 4 generations in Egypt also doesn't allow for a 430-year stay in Egypt. In fact, if you calculate the time from when Yahweh made the Covenant with Abram when Abram was 75 to when Jacob entered Egypt, you get 215 years. It becomes apparent that half the 430 was counted from Abram's entering Canaan to the Israelites entering Egypt, the other half their time in Egypt, and the Oppression seems to have lasted around 80 years, if it began shortly b4 Moses was born, maybe a century. Of course, Joseph was prominent in Egypt for something like 80 years (I think he was in his 30s when Jacob entered Egypt and died at around 110 years of age) after settling his family in Goshen, and identifying him with Semitic Vizier Ankhu in the reign of Senusret II or Amenemhat III helps identify who his sons were in the Egyptian record, who also appeared to have been prominent overseers over Egypt AND Canaan. So that whole generation enjoyed peace in Egypt, and obviously, the oppression wasn't centuries long. The fact that Aaron was 3 years older maybe means the Infanticide happened closer to Moses' birth.
Very insightful and informative as always. I agree with your Biblical analysis. That being said, I really loved this movie when it came out in theaters, but I went into it knowing that Hollywood generally takes dramatic liberties with source materials in nearly all projects they undertake when adapting stories to the screen. I'm just a really big admirer of Ridley Scott. Don't judge me too harshly. :) Ha ha! Here's a silly example to try to explain my view. :) If you have ever read The Shining by Stephen King and then watched the 1980 film by Stanley Kubrick, you will see that they share the same basic premise but differ widely in multiple respects. But essentially, the book is a great Stephen King novel and the movie is a great Stanley Kubrick film and I can appreciate both because they are each different storytelling mediums being told by two different artists - and in my own insignificant opinion, Kubrick made a great film out of a great story. I guess it all just depends on your tastes. Keep up the great work with these videos! I look forward to viewing more! :)
I think it’s an interesting take that ridley. Scott tried to portray Moses as an insane person after getting struck by rocks, and the God he saw, was just his delusion. It is an interesting, take, indeed, but I don’t think he gave us any more value by doing that instead of just sticking to the original texts. I personally don’t mind that they alter the Bible texts to create dramatic facts at all, after all, we are watching a movie not trying to see a documentary. Visually is totally epic as you would expect from him, however, the writing is so scattered and Messi and not emotionally engaging enough, that makes it a subpar movie which is a shame, because of the acting was so good. Also, why not give the audience what they came for as seeing the Red Sea being split in half? I don’t understand what they were thinking. In any case, this interpretation has so much potential, but did not live up to the expectations 😢😢😢 oh, now go back to Watch the animation version which is so much better.
6:18 In youth group, we once compared the Burning Bush scenes of Ten Commandments, Prince of Egypt. and this to see how Biblically accurate they were. My youth pastor asked what this scene got wrong, and I said: "Umm...ONE..." to which everyone laughed. So we started small with what they got RIGHT. My answer was: "There was a bush, and it was burning, and that's it." My YP reminded me that God says I AM. But that was pretty much it. That sums up my views on this horrible movie. I call it Exodus: Crap and Garbage.
5:54 Most commentaries I've read on the Bible have concluded that the Cushite woman was a later wife of Moses after Zipporah died. Of course, it's possible that Zipporah and the Cushite woman were one and the same, but we can't definitively get that from scripture.
It's a gorgeous rendition ...although, I'd argue that the quote, 'thus sayeth the lord, let my people go.' indeed means to pay them ..allowing them to be 'let go', to 'be free'.. of king, debt or tyranny ....or it means to indeed, 'physically' let them "Go". Point being: this rendition mentioned it was assuredly 'not' financial freedom. . . I don't agree. In our age, our times. What worse debt is there? What worse way are we still enslaved? ...none I say. None
I found the crocodiles attacking the fisherman so ridiculous. I'm pretty sure they scripted it that way in order to downplay God's power and like the plagues "more realistic." Ironically, it's actually became less realistic as a result, because I find the water transforming into blood more believable than all the croodiles going on a rampage and the water getting stained with blood (which would have actually looked watered down and not at all like the blood-red color we see in the movie). Funnily enough, I'll see comments on the clip of that scene say, "The crocodiles didn't have be realistic. It's the power of God. That's why they went on a rampage." So it took a complete 180° despite the effort to downplay God's power, which I find hilarious.
Heard of this “interesting” theory that what happened is that God collected the period blood from all the Egyptian woman and then put it into the Nile as it just happened to be that time of the month for many of them.
I genuinely hated this movie. It is probably the worst large budget adaptation of the Bible I have ever seen. I don't think one has to be deeply religious to adapt the Bible just like you don't need to believe in Zeus to adapt Greek mythology but it at least requires an understanding of the story and this movie completely didn't.
PuraSepaSaved I just bought it on cable and sis, I would've cut it off if I hadn't paid for it. Good graphics, but UTTERLY ridiculous as far as depiction of biblical facts. I think it was a complete mockery. That's why I was looking to see if others felt the same, hence me watching THIS video ...lol
@@LearnTheParableOfTheFigTree Mockery? In simplest terms, Moses listens to god and frees the slaves. As far as movie depictions based on books or claimed true stories, it did remarkably well.
Then just don't watch it looking for a top-to-bottom biblical depiction. Just look at it as a movie. The problem with a lot of people that make them dismiss this movie is that they take it way too seriously. Instead of looking at the movie for what it is, they instead look at how many boxes it checks according to what they know of the Bible. That's not how it should be. This movie just uses that as inspiration and a framework but ultimately it tries to keep it grounded and less sanitized. Is it a great biblical depiction, no. But as a movie, it's interesting in its own right and does away with the usual cliche depictions of the story and characters we know of.
It doesn't matter if the movie isn't accurate because the old testament isn't historically accurate either, the details have been distorted and mistranslated over the centuries. Don't get me wrong the messages it teaches are intact and still important but be aware it probably all happened a little differently. For context understand this, . People in the Bronze age or any age didn't live for hundreds of years . Bronze age Civilizations didn't use the same Callander as us
@@TheBibleExplained well the book you were based on is still written by a man, flaws everywhere, admit the book is changed time to time, so if you were saying this wrong this right there on the movie, you just reading the book, not understanding it. it is not just words for words, its all about what happening during that time and no one knows it
Cinematicly,this was beautifully filmed,and the visual effects were fantastic. But I definitely agree that this wasn't very accurate to the bible story. Its a reason why I love The Prince Of Egypt,that movie had a lot of accurate stuff from the story.
The movie isn't all that accurate, but it was interesting enough to inspire me to watch these videos about it thus learning new stuff about Moses & company :)
Interesting video, the first time I saw the the movie I was surprised by the liberties the director took. A Catholic priest said he thought it was spiritually flat. I would agree with that assessment. The child that played the role of god was an interesting take. Jesus did tell his apostles not to turn away the the children when they came to see him, he said “ such is the kingdom of heaven”. For me it was creative license. I liked that Moses was a warrior because he probably was to some degree. Not much is known about him. At least we can ponder the possibilities. He certainly would have been educated. He might’ve been married. Whatever the case Exodus gods and kings was entertaining. Two thumbs up for me.
This movie had cool visual and good acting but I didn’t like how this movie got a lot of stuff wrong. This is why I prefer The Ten Commandments(1956) and The Prince of Egypt(1998) over this one. Those movies were more biblically accurate.
interesting to hear your comments. I have to stand by Zipporah being a Midianite and not a Cushite because her father was a Midianite, a descendant of Abraham and Keturah. Midianites lived in Arabia. Miriam and Aaron probably would not speak out against Zipporah whom Moses married about forty years ago. Apparently Zipporah died and Moses remarried. I read Karl Keil and F. Delitzsch commentary on Numbers 12 which handles the story in detail.
17:20 I'm not defending this awful movie by any means, but you are actually slightly wrong here. In Exodus 31:18, it does in fact say that The Ten Commandments were written by God's finger. However, Moses becomes the worst sinner by breaking all Ten Commandments at once (Exodus 32:19), and in Exodus 34:1, God commands Moses to chisel out the Commandments himself. So, Moses actually DID carve The Ten Commandments, but that was after The Golden Calf. Note that he is carving them AFTER the movie's Golden Calf scene.
“And the Lord said to Moses, “Cut two tablets of stone like the first ones, and I will write on these tablets the words that were on the first tablets which you broke.” Exodus 34:1 NKJV
I think that director has taken bits of moses story from torah, bible and quran and combined it into a movie.. But whatever it is, i really liked the movie and i think it somewhere succeeds in giving a lesson of having faith in god in every situation and test.
People did not shoot bow and arrows from horseback. That type of archery developed centuries later by the Mongols and Japanese. Only javelins were hurled on heavy war chariots only developed after the hysok invasion, and the Jews were in Canaan by them.
That's a good question. I'm not sure that I've found one that was entirely correct, but I do like the "Hanna-Barbera: Greatest Adventure - Stories from the Bible" version.
@@TheBibleExplained I do not like that series of cartoons. I bought a volume of it because I remember watching it years ago. Watching one episode as an adult, however, really opened my eyes. In one episode, the two boys lusted after a beautiful lady who walked by. Yes, they “hilariously” got all tripped up in doing so, but I don’t want my little 4-year-old granddaughter getting any wrong messages.
I was suspicious of the accuracy of the film as soon as I saw their atheist way of describing the year as BCE (Before the Common Era). They’d much rather say “common” than Christ.
It wasnt a slave rebellion , otherwise by law the egyptians could fight for their property, the Lord had pharoah speak it iinto law. After liberation he had to teach a bunch of slaves how to defend. Also to the people it looked like moses was making all the decisions they didnt hear the voice until they were at the mountain and then they said moses you find out and tell us.
in my opinion R.Scott missed a layup. with having this kind of cast and having the bible as a source material. I watched the ten commandments not long ago and even after almost a decade it holds true. the movie is interesting to watch and the effects actually holds up.
This movie is a mockery of God and does not depict the biblical story. Hopefully people who do watch it will be enticed to read the true biblical accounts.
Atheists don't get offended by biblical movies. That's just dumb. But I guess it's easier for you to use atheists as an excuse rather than accept the fact that a movie that followed the Bible perfectly, wouldnt be exciting enough for Christians to watch it. It's not atheists who watch movies, it's professing Christians who do. And you can't have Christians saying a biblical movie is bad. Basically it's a movie that was slightly more accurate TO HISTORY than the Bible. There is no record or archeological evidence that Jews were ever slaves in egypt. To begin with.
'Ehyeh 'asher 'Ehyeh is the Hebrew phrase often misrendered as "I Am", when "I Shall Become" or "I Shall Cause To Be" are more accurate. 'Ehyeh, considered as God's 'Name', is never called his name. Right AFTER God speaks these words for the first time*, God says "Yahweh (or Jehovah, depending on your tradition), the God of your ancestors...has sent me to you. This is my Name Forever, and this is how I am to be remembered from generation to generation." This is obscured when English Bibles mostly replace the actual Name of God with 'Lord', which is an outright corruption of the scripture's intent. The false god Baal -that designation means 'Lord'. We see it also in the name 'Baal-Zebub', which is a term used for Satan. Yet translators take the liberty to relegate the distinct Name of the Almighty to a term that humans, angels and even the devil have been called. I did a word search of 'Ehyeh in the Hebrew Bible recently. It's a term used by humans and other spirit beings, something like 60 times showing up in the Tanakh. Therefore, it is not a designation intended for use singular to Yahweh; it is merely a term He used to explain the meaning of His Name to Moses. So the Burning Bush scene in this film -or really any other movie about Moses- isn't at all God's Name. That part was omitted, so absolutely no points in that case. Incidentally, the name Yahweh (YHWH) appears written in Paleo-Hebrew on the stone tablets of the Ten Commandments at the end, as it is in The Ten Commandments and some other depictions. But the script is always the wrong one. The Israelites didn't write like that till after they had settled in Canaan. Proto-Sinaitic is more what the writing would've looked like in Moses' time, the first Alphabet, derived from Egyptian Hieroglyphs.
Where was Moses staff at Why did it get left out for?That's the most iconic thing about Moses. By the way why were the slaves being lynched if they were white WTF is the real story😕I never read that in the BIBLE.Why did a director who don't believe in this make this movie for?What was he saying????Nothing.
I think the most offensive thing here is its portrayal of God. This was enough to make me majorly cringe, thinking of the almighty creator of the universe being reduced to a whiny, bratty, British kid? That is not only a breaking of the second commandment, but also a massive and heretical misrepresentation of God.
I think I have to take fairly serious exception to the premise here. Perhaps I've misunderstood what you mean by Biblical accuracy, but this film can square pretty well with PaRDeS. Is your intention just a literal Christian thing? From many Jewish perspectives changing the story in some ways to tell other stories (about Moses' faith for instance) is a very traditional approach. I'm happy for Christians to say that this isn't how they like to read this story, but saying 'butchering' this biblical text is really not okay, from many Jewish perspectives Christians have butchered these stories (I don't think that, I welcome wider reading) but there's a strange thing going on here which I have to disagree with.
I get the accuracy criticisms, but it is a movie. For instance, I love the movie The Ten Commandments, but the Charlton Heston version of Moses is not accurate either. Most of the Biblical movies that have been made over the decades are not completely true to the Bible either; for example, the British accents of biblical characters, but that does not mean they are not worth watching. I would say Christian Bale's version of "Moses" as the reluctant warrior is truer to the real Moses in the Bible.
I honestly find this movie irrelevant to scripture, I mean I didn't even watch the movie but just fast fowarding it I saw a lot of irrelevant events. And I find it deceiving to people with less knowledge of the Exodus of the Israelites.
I have not seen this movie, or even plan to ever see it, and I like that when you watch a movie, you look for the message they are trying to present, and this movie message...is very anti-God, trying to portray Moses as delusional. Also I just want this put out there but MOSES WIFE was ETHIOPIAN, and ETHIOPIAN are Africans, why DO movies never show his wife's race correctly, I look for this in movies, because I (cough, cough) am an Ethiopian.
I think atheists are more likely to be offended by this movie since it portrays God as being cruel and without mercy. Furthermore, it creates a false representation of God's wrath that is out of context. In the bible, God always sends a prophet to deliver a warning before sending disasters on people. Egypt was already guilty of enslaving the Hebrews for 400 years and murdering their children, and yet God did not punish Pharaoh (and Egypt) until years later when Pharaoh refused to release the children of Israel from slavery. God sent Moses to warn Pharaoh before each and every plague. This is clearly not shown in the movie. The Egyptians were greatly blessed by God in the time of Joseph when they were saved from 7 years of famine, and therefore they should have known better. The Egyptians have forgotten this, and have stood by while Pharaoh enslaved the Hebrews and killed their children. It would have been just for God to have destroyed all of Egypt in one plague, but He was being merciful to Pharaoh by warning him of the consequences if he did not set the Hebrews free from slavery. God gave Pharaoh time and opportunity to repent by sending Moses to deliver a warning each time before a plague.
