《埃及王子》(The Prince of Egypt,梦工厂1998年动画电影)的摩西过红海影片片段,以及主题音乐 When You Believe。
When You Believe
Many nights we prayed
With no proof anyone could hear
In our hearts a hope for a song
We barely understoodNow we are not afraid
Although we know there’s much to fear
We were moving mountains
Long before we knew we could, whoa, yesThere can be miracles
When you believe
Though hope is frail
Its hard to killWho knows what miracles
You can achieve
When you believe somehow you will
You will when you believeMmmyeah
In this time of fear
When prayer so often proves in vainHope seems like the summer birds
Too swiftly flown away
Yet now I’m standing here
My hearts so full, I can’t explainSeeking faith and speakin’ words
I never thought I’d say
There can be miracles
When you believe (when you believe)
Though hope is frail
Its hard to kill (mmm)Who knows what miracles
You can achieve (You can achieve)
When you believe somehow you will
You will when you believeThey don’t always happen when you ask
And it’s easy to give in to your fears
But when you’re blinded by your pain
Can’t see your way clear through the rain
A small but still, resilient voice
Says hope is very near, oh (oh)There can be miracles (miracles)
When you believe (boy, when you believe, yeah) (though hope is frail)Though hope is frail (it’s hard)
Its hard to kill (hard to kill, oh, yeah)
Who knows what miracles
You can achieve (you can achieve, oh)
When you believe somehow you will (somehow, somehow, somehow)
Now you will (now I, now I, know)
You will when you believe (when you)
(Oh oh)You will when you believe
摩西过红海 故事概要
……摩西离开米甸后,就入宫晋见法老,要求他释放上帝的子民。由于法老心里刚硬,上帝就降下十场灾难(十灾),震撼埃及,然而只要灾祸一离去,法老就又反悔。终于在第十场灾难重击之下,埃及的一切头生的,包括人及家畜全都死去。法老对长男的死去悲痛欲绝,终于容许以色列人离去
不过法老故态复萌,再次后悔放走以色列人。于是听说以色列人就在旷野迷路时,从后追赶,要把以色列人捉回来。圣经中摩西带领以色列人到红海,向海伸出手杖,红海便分开一条道路,摩西便带领以色列民行走这条路逃离埃及人的追捕。当埃及人入水时,耶和华就把红海的海水回复,使埃及人被淹死于红海中。
……According to the Book of Exodus, Moses was born in a time when his people, the Israelites, an enslaved minority, were increasing in population and, as a result, the Egyptian Pharaoh worried that they might ally themselves with Egypt’s enemies. Moses’ Hebrew mother, Jochebed, secretly hid him when the Pharaoh ordered all newborn Hebrew boys to be killed in order to reduce the population of the Israelites. Through the Pharaoh’s daughter (identified as Queen Bithia in the Midrash), the child was adopted as a foundling from the Nile river and grew up with the Egyptian royal family. After killing an Egyptian slave-master who was beating a Hebrew, Moses fled across the Red Sea to Midian, where he encountered the Angel of the Lord, speaking to him from within a burning bush on Mount Horeb, which he regarded as the Mountain of God.