This movie contains one of the earliest Hollywood depictions of interracial romance without a white actor in blackface. A romantic relationship between Moses and Princess Tharbis is implied when she looks seductively at Moses and says that he is "kind as well as wise." In the Bible, Numbers 12:1 states that Moses had a Cushite (Ethiopian) wife. In his book Antiquities of the Jews, Jewish historian Flavius Josephus calls her "Tharbis" and tells a story about Moses conquering Ethiopia with the help of the princess.

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