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ABC’s Long-Running ‘The Ten Commandments’ Easter Tradition Continues in 2023
ABC ^ | pre-Christ | Moses

Posted on 04/01/2023 4:47:00 PM PDT by DallasBiff

For the past half-century, nearly every year since 1973, around Easter and Passover ABC has rebroadcast Cecil B. DeMille’s Oscar-winning 1956 epic The Ten Commandments, which draws its story from the Old Testament book of Exodus about Moses’ (Charlton Heston) deliverance of the Israelites from slavery at the hands of Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II (Yul Brynner)

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Religion
KEYWORDS: 10commandments; donatefreerepublic; moses
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Can't believe in this day that ABC, would run this.

Great movie.

1 posted on 04/01/2023 4:47:00 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Have the Commandments been updated with modern ones?


2 posted on 04/01/2023 4:50:12 PM PDT by Jonty30 (It is not how many that go into Mexico that counts. It is how many that return from Mexico.)
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To: DallasBiff

Watching it now...:)


3 posted on 04/01/2023 4:53:35 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." J)
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To: DallasBiff

Flipping back, and forth between that, and the game.

Actually had a cousin remind me it was on.
Family, and Tradition. Some things Don’t change.👍


4 posted on 04/01/2023 4:53:58 PM PDT by MotorCityBuck (Keep the change, you filthy animal! )
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To: DallasBiff
My favorite line- Edward G. Robinson in his Chicago gangster voice: “Nyah, where’s your God now, Moses?
5 posted on 04/01/2023 4:55:04 PM PDT by Apparatchik (If you find yourself in a confusing situation, simply laugh knowingly and walk away - Jim IgnatowskD)
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To: DallasBiff

So let it be written....so let it be done.


6 posted on 04/01/2023 4:55:22 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: DallasBiff

I thought it was 15 Commandments? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I48hr8HhDv0


7 posted on 04/01/2023 4:56:10 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: All

Great that this movie still gets shown as an annual tradition


8 posted on 04/01/2023 4:56:26 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: DallasBiff
It started as 15 Commandments:


9 posted on 04/01/2023 4:56:57 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: Apparatchik

Send the Hebrew in


10 posted on 04/01/2023 4:57:20 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: DallasBiff

Surprised at this

I’ve seen it dozens of times. Started it hundreds of times

I used to slap that in the DVD player when I was trying to go to sleep. I’d be nighty night before Rameses declared Moses to be an “insurrectionist”


11 posted on 04/01/2023 4:57:58 PM PDT by digger48
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To: freedumb2003

Beat you by 47 seconds.


12 posted on 04/01/2023 4:58:21 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: Apparatchik

Dance you mud turtles!!!


13 posted on 04/01/2023 5:00:09 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Apparatchik

LOL, I just loved Billy Crystal doing his imitation...’Where’s your Messiah now? Nyah, Nyah, Nyah!”


14 posted on 04/01/2023 5:00:13 PM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." J)
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To: DallasBiff

Shoot, I missed it. How does one get ABC without cable?


15 posted on 04/01/2023 5:00:41 PM PDT by madison10
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To: digger48

Try this if you need something to fall asleep to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbiZSUAFcrQ It always works for me.


16 posted on 04/01/2023 5:00:47 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (81 million votes my ass.)
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To: DallasBiff

This flick is pretty much the only thing on ABC air worth watching.


17 posted on 04/01/2023 5:01:14 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: freedumb2003

LOL I was just about to look for that!


18 posted on 04/01/2023 5:01:19 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: EvilCapitalist

Yeah, that would do it!


19 posted on 04/01/2023 5:05:10 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Jonty30

“Have the Commandments been updated with modern ones?”

There’s been a few. One is:

Thou shalt not mess with the Clintons.

wy69


20 posted on 04/01/2023 5:05:23 PM PDT by whitney69
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