This story The Prince of Egypt is about a Pharaoh who commanded all of the new babies born of hebrews to be killed.
One mother didn’t want that to happen to her new baby son, so she made a woven basket to put him in to have him float down a stream to safety and to some one that might take care of him. She put her son in the basket and let it soar down stream. Miriam, who is this boy’s sister, saw to it that he got down stream safely.
The Queen of the land was playing with her son, Rameses. She saw the basket, opened it, and took in the baby as her own. She named her new son Moses.
Moses grew up and got in trouble many times. He became great friends with Rameses. They would fight a lot, but they still were like brothers.
One night, Rameses had gotten in trouble and was out pouting somewhere when there was a party. Moses went to find him and remind him of the party they were supposed to be at. Moses found Rameses and told him about the party and they ran to get there. They came in a little late, but just in time to find out their dad had just appointed Rameses as the new Pharaoh. As a present Rameses got a camel and a woman they called "Desert Flower," for she looked like one.
Rameses gave the "Desert Flower" to Moses, who was embarrassed. He told some servants to give her a room and to give her food, for he would deal with her later.
When he went to the room that "Desert Flower" was staying in, after the celebration, he started to apologize to her. He noticed that there was no guard, then he heard a muffled sound. He removed the curtains hiding the bed and saw that the person he was apologizing to was a tied up guard! He looked out the window and sees how she got away, then sees her not too far away. He hurriedly follows her until she stops to get some water from a lady. He stops also for he is tired.
While he is still resting "Desert Flower" takes off across the wide desert on a camel. Meanwhile, Moses starts after her, but he knows better not to. The lady who gave "Desert Flower" water was studying Moses oddly. She yelled, "I knew you would free us!" Then Moses’s real brother came out to see what the yelling was about.
Moses doesn’t understand what the lady just exclaimed to him, so he asked, "what do you mean?" "What do you mean?! You are our brother!" the lady said, amazed that he wasn’t understanding. Moses didn’t believe this, so he said nothing and started walking away. The lady sings the last lullaby that his mother sang to him. He now believes this lady and starts running back to the palace.
That night he has a dream that he is on a record on the palace walls. He watches while guards track down families with babies. The guards take away the babies from families and dump them in the river where the crocodiles live for them to eat. Moses sees his mother with his two sisters, holding a basket and himself as a baby. His mother reaches a stream unharmed and unseen by the guards. Moses’s sister sets down the basket, and his mother puts Moses in it. Moses’ mother lets the basket go down stream and to the Queen by the stream not very far away. He wakes up and thinks about his dream. By mid-afternoon he is still thinking about his dream when Rameses tells him his plan.
Rameses wants to build a new temple, bigger, stronger, better than any other. That means more slaves. They are outside when Rameses tells Moses his plan. Rameses still hasn’t told anyone else except his advisors, so the slaves are still working on the other temple. While Rameses is saying this, Moses is looking around. He sees a guard whipping a slave. The other slaves plead for him to stop, but he won’t. Moses gets enraged and runs to make him stop. He gets to the high walkway where the slave is still being whipped. Moses jumps behind the guard who is whipping the slave and accidentally pushes the guard off the walkway. Moses realizes that he just killed a man.
He feels bad and starts running. He runs and runs until he is at the outer gates of Egypt and at the beginning of the desert. Rameses followed Moses and has now caught up with him. Rameses tries to convince Moses to come back but fails. Now Moses is running across the desert, without water and food. A camel with no one on it comes up right next to him. He grabs on and then passes out until he hears loud shouts of protest.
There are men trying to steal sheep while the little girls that are supposed to be watching the sheep are squealing for the men to stop. Moses gets up and sees two camels tied up to a palm tree. He asks the men, "Are these yours?" He unties the knot keeping the camels there. The men stare for a second and start running after their loose camels. The little girls that he saved are the sisters of "Desert Flower".
Later Moses ends up marrying "Desert Flower. " He becomes a shepherd watching over the family’s flock.
One morning a sheep wanders into a cave, and he follows it. He walks into a big and empty cavern. In the middle of the cavern there is a fiery tree. He walks up to it and sticks his shepherds staff into the blue flames of the tree, but the wooden staff didn’t burn. Then a voice tells Moses to lead his people out of slavery. This voice also tells Moses that this voice is the voice of the true god. Moses believes and obeys this voice and goes back to Egypt to free his people.
He tries to convince Rameses to free the slaves, and Rameses refuses. Moses turns his shepherds staff into a cobra. This was the first of the plagues. Later Moses asks Rameses again while he is in a boat on the river. Rameses again says no.
Rameses sends two of his guards to kill Moses, but Moses sticks his staff into the water, and the water turns into blood. The guards get afraid and swim back to the boat. Moses also has frogs and locusts wave over the land. Rameses gets enraged. That night God tells Moses to put lamb’s blood on his peoples’ houses because a plague will kill all little children in Egypt. If there is blood on the doors the plague will pass it by.
The next day there is mourning throughout the land. Moses goes to the palace and again asks Rameses if he will now free his people. Rameses’s son was killed by the plague, so Rameses gives in and lets his people free. Moses’ mission is to bring his people to the promised land. They travel and travel until they come to the Red Sea.
Moses steps into the water and parts the Red Sea. Just as everyone was almost through the Red Sea, Rameses and his guards chase after them on chariots. Somehow the horses pulling the chariots get unhitched, so they run away. But the guards and Rameses continue on foot.
Meanwhile, Moses gets everyone through the Red Sea, and on to dry land. Moses unparts the sea and everyone pursuing them is killed. Later, Moses completes his mission and brings his people to the promised land.