Film Closely Follows The Biblical Text Analysis

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Give some examples of places where the movie closely follows the Biblical text and some examples of places where the movie makes changes from the Biblical text.
The movie follows the biblical text in how it recreates events of importance that built to the freedom of the Hebrews. In the movie and the biblical text Moses was called by the flaming bush who was the lord telling him he must go and tell the Egyptians to free the Hebrews and he will guide and help him towards their freedom. Moses turned the Nile River into blood and then no one was able to drink from the river or use its water and a series of unfortunate events happen all in Egypt to their animals and people involving pestilence.
The movie makes changes from the biblical text because

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