Exodus 14:21 reads: “Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.” And then, according to the Bible, the Israelites were free from Pharaoh’s rule. In Cecil B. DeMille's 1955 film “The Ten Commandments”, a bearded and robes Charlton Heston stood in front the Red Sea and commanded the waters to part. After the Pharaoh’s chariots entered the dry sea bed in pursuit of the Israelites, the parted walls of collpased on top of them.