Word: godly
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...then one day, just before a military victory and just after settling the question of whether daughters could inherit if there were no sons (yes), God matter-of-factly instructs Moses: "Ascend these heights of Abarim...and view the land of Canaan which I am giving the Israelites as their holding." When Moses has seen the Promised Land, God says, he will perish. Moses immediately acquiesces: "Let the Lord, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone [else] over the community." His later recollection in Deuteronomy, however, is "I pleaded with the Lord at that time, saying...
...both laws and memories." The 120-year-old "went up from the steppes of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the summit of Pisgah, opposite Jericho," recounts the Bible. And then, "Moses the servant of the Lord died there at the command of the Lord. He [God] buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, near Beth-peor; and no one knows his burial place to this day." There follows this spare but eloquent elegy. "Never again did there arise in Israel a prophet like Moses--whom the Lord singled out, face to face...
...tale takes place as Moses has gone up Mount Nebo to die. When God invites the prophet's soul out of his body, it demurs. And in the end, the Lord who has spoken through fire and water and thunder and smoke descends yet once more, and draws out the soul of Moses with a kiss...
...adopted brother Moses would be more compelling than their interacting as uncle and nephew. Some other dramatic devices were also invented. "We have 88 minutes to tell 70 years in the life of Moses," says Katzenberg. "We can never be a literal retelling of the Bible. We've edited God, but we have not rewritten...
...voice of God was one of the more difficult choices in the film. "Every race and color and creed has a claim to the voice of God," Katzenberg says. Using an idea of producer Cox's, the animators put together a scratch track that was an eerily effective chorus of every character in the film, with the dominant voice morphing from man to woman to child. But consultant Schwartz-Getzug vetoed that approach, saying some people would be offended if the voice of God sounded--even momentarily--like a woman's. Kilmer ended up supplying the voice...