A son of slaves brought up in the home of an Egyptian pharoah, Moses enjoyed the privileges of royalty until his restless exploration of his past led him to kill one of his people's abusive Egyptian masters and to flee into the desert. He would have died, forgotten, in some barren field, if a miraculous vision from God had not changed the course of his life. Wielding power supplied by God, he returned from the desert to confront the Egyptian pharoah with a single stirring demand: Let my people go! The story of what happened next--the plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, the flaming encounter on Mount Sinai--has stirred the imaginations of artists, civil rights leaders, filmmakers, and religious visionaries for nearly three millenia. Through scorching heat, disease, and hostile races, Moses led his people to the borders of a Promised Land he was not allowed to enter.