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And moses goes back up the mountain for a second shot at it. >> reporter: we've made it to the top of mount sinai. the sun has risen and we're amongst pilgrims from all over the world. and perhaps the sheer physical effort of getting up here -- >> pretty rough. >> -- adds to the spirituality. ♪ glory, glory hallelujah ♪ >> the view is out of this world. and it seems fitting that this is the first and only place the bible says man ever came face to face with god. no matter what your faith, what happened here, this part of the exodus story, this part of moses' story has affected all of us fo...

But then a caretaker arrived to open a padlocked door and led us into one of the most beautiful tombs that we'd seen so far. even thousands of years later the walls are still covered with akhenaten's radical message of monotheism. >> the main idea is the sun and the rays of the aten. and the influence is -- the one god. >> yeah. that's the main idea. is the one god is responsible for everything. he looks after us. above here and underneath and he looks after us in the resurrection. >> reporter: in another tomb at the site rahwiya shows us an inscription of the famous hymn to the god aten. the ...

Changing, and people's ideas keep changing as a result of archaeology and historical study. >> so there are always surprises. >> there are always surprises. >> reporter: and that's exactly what bryan and her team have been finding. amidst the ruins of a temple that was used during the biblical time of moses. >> how significant is this dig? >> this is where the workers worked and also where they lived. because we have a temple over here but you also have to have things like bread making, beer making. but surprise is that this year we started to get a lot of human beings. they are probably the p...

Banks of the river nile the bible says that moses' brethren, the israelites, were still enslaved by the pharaoh, building his grand palaces and temples. after many years of suffering, the bible says, they were fed up and began to grown and cry out to their god. >> you know, jews have been at the forefront of almost every social justice movement of the 20th century. when you look at, you know, the civil rights marches, there were very often jews in the front row and second row. and i think there's a straight line from that groaning in the story of the exodus to that. the idea that we speak up. ...

When he's standing here and looking out, he's completed his mission. >> reporter: but moses would never cross into the promised land. after years of carefully following god's orders, risking it all on faith, he was denied his goal because of one mistake. as god had done so many times before, he gave moses some complicated orders to follow. he told him to speak to a rock to bring forth water. instead, moses smacked the rock with a stick. the water came, but god was angry, and he delivered an unspeakably harsh punishment. for not listening, god told moses that though he had led his people here t...