- Lilia
"Lilia" is a fictitious character in the epic move "The Ten Commandments" a film made in
1956 byParamount Pictures and directed byCecil B. DeMille . The character was played byDebra Paget .In the film, Lilia is a beautiful
Hebrew slave who is taken into the house of Baka, the master builder ofEgypt , ostensibly as a love slave. When Baka is killed byMoses , she becomes the property of Dathan, a fellow Hebrew in the pay of theEgyptians . She is in love withJoshua , a stonecutter, who is a leader of theHebrew rebellion against their bondage.Lilia refuses to leave the house of the master builder due to her shame when
Joshua informs her thatGod will deliver the last of theten plagues and slay the first born of everyone who is not in a house with sacrificial blood on the door lintels.Joshua paints blood on Dathan's door anyway, which causes Dathan to be ousted as a conspirator when theHebrews are released from bondage.Although the film does not specify it, it is assumed that Lilia becomes
Joshua 's wife when theHebrews begin their wanderings in the desert.
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