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01:30Oh, Great Ishtar, goddess of mothers, goddess of kindness,
01:37goddess of birth and fertility,
01:40heal this baby and make happy a worried mother.
01:45Great Ishtar.
01:48Her mother takes a vow to bring you valuable offerings.
01:55I have prayed to the Great Ishtar to keep your baby alive,
02:07and she has answered my prayer.
02:12Go forth and raise your child in a way that ensures
02:16that she will be a follower of the Great Ishtar.
02:19I am grateful to you and the Great Ishtar.
02:22Praise be to the benevolent Ishtar.
02:24I don't know how to thank you.
02:26My baby was gone, and you brought her back to life.
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02:48Our baby will be healed like hers was.
02:52Ishtar is kind and mighty. She will certainly be healed.
02:56That's what I believe. Let's approach.
03:00What is the matter with you?
03:03You are superior to angels, yet you prostrate to your own makings.
03:10The whole universe obeys man,
03:13and yet you continue to bow your heads to the lifeless stone.
03:18That's your opinion. You're insulting our gods for no reason.
03:22These are not my words.
03:25I am the messenger of God to tell you of his book.
03:29This is the holy book revealed to my grandfather, Prophet Abraham.
03:36I am a follower of his religion and the propagator of this book.
03:41They are not my words.
03:43Is it written in that heavenly book to insult our gods?
03:47I'm not insulting, only asking.
03:51If you know, give me an answer.
03:54If not, accept what I tell you.
03:57I ask you.
03:59Did the statues in the Ishtar temple create you,
04:03or was it you who created them?
04:06Does Ishtar have power over you, or you over Ishtar?
04:10Does Ishtar rule you, or you rule Ishtar?
04:13If Ishtar is an unable and incompetent stone, how did she heal my child?
04:17He's right! We serve him!
04:19He speaks the truth!
04:20I saw Ishtar cure his child with my own eyes.
04:23The Omnipotent Lord heard your prayers and healed your baby, not Ishtar.
04:28It was God.
04:30Although you took refuge in a goddess and sought help from her,
04:34it was the Lord Omniscient who was aware of his servants
04:39and had mercy upon you and your baby.
04:44You have sight, but not insight.
04:47Therefore, you saw Ishtar not the real healer.
04:52Jacob is saying that we must stop worshiping our gods
04:56and instead worship his.
04:59Am I not right?
05:01What have our gods done for us that we might expect more from yours?
05:05I'm calling on you to worship the unequaled god,
05:09the god of all and the universe.
05:12How can we know your god is superior to ours?
05:15What if you and your god are after gaining profit for yourself
05:18like the priests in the Ishtar temple?
05:22You all know that I work for Laban as a shepherd,
05:25and I have nothing of my own.
05:28Have I ever asked you for anything in return?
05:31Have you ever seen anything of me but working hard as a shepherd?
05:35What if you ask for something in the future?
05:38You have no power now. You'll be just as bad as the priests.
05:42You are all alike.
05:45Once you gain power, you'll fill your stomach and make your own treasure.
05:51I think you're justified.
05:54You lost your only child to sickness, and nobody helped you.
05:58Neither Esther, the sorceress, nor Ishtar, the goddess of the temple.
06:03You are justified not to worship any god.
06:07I don't care about the incapable Ishtar.
06:11I'm talking to your unseen god.
06:14We have suffered enough from the stone gods of the temple.
06:18We can't bear another god.
06:20The temple officers are coming. The temple officers!
06:23Perez, run! Hurry!
06:30He went that way.
06:32Go! Arrest him! Don't let him escape!
06:38He didn't do anything! Let him be!
06:48Were you not the son-in-law of Governor Laban, I'd punish you severely.
06:53I'm not afraid of you or the temple's officers.
07:00Disperse!
07:03Don't listen to Jacob's blasphemy. Don't you see?
07:07This blasphemy has caused famine in Arren.
07:10He has caused it!
07:13He's right!
07:16Let's go before Ishtar curses us!
07:19Let's go!
07:33Let's go!
08:03If it doesn't rain soon, all the crops in Arren will be destroyed.
08:10I pray to God to bless this city with rain.
08:16What's going on over there, father?
08:19It's an old custom of the people of Arren.
08:22They throw Ishtar's enemies into the river.
08:26The river is flooded.
08:30High Priest! Have mercy on him!
08:37Let me go! What have I done?
08:41I didn't do anything!
08:44Let me go!
08:47Let me go!
08:50Let me go!
08:53Let me go!
08:56I didn't do anything!
09:00You look after the herd and I'll see what's going on.
09:13Let go!
09:15Have mercy on us!
09:17What have I done? Let me go!
09:27That's Jacob, a shepherd. The nephew of Laban, the governor.
09:31High Priest! Please have mercy!
09:34This is punishment for blasphemy!
09:37People, help me! I'm innocent!
09:40He must be punished!
09:57I'm innocent!
10:00The people of Arren!
10:03Have mercy! I'm innocent!
10:10Perez is the enemy of Ishtar.
10:13He has attacked Ishtar with stones
10:16and called her an inefficient and incapable goddess.
10:20According to the old tradition of the people of Arren,
10:24those who insult the great goddess Ishtar
10:27shall be thrown into the fire by catapult.
10:30No! No!
10:33People, have mercy! I'm innocent!
10:36What have I done?
10:39People of Arren, have mercy!
10:42Have mercy!
10:45I'm innocent!
10:49Have mercy! I'm innocent!
10:52Have mercy!
10:55Poor Perez.
10:58I'm innocent! Have mercy!
11:03Please have mercy!
11:06Please!
11:09What have I done? I'm innocent!
11:12High Priest!
11:15Have mercy!
11:18Have mercy on me!
11:21I'm innocent! I'm innocent!
11:24Don't shout in vain.
11:27Either pay your blood money
11:30or you will burn to death.
11:33Please don't burn him!
11:36People of Arren, have mercy on me!
11:39I'm innocent!
11:43Don't burn him!
11:46How much is his blood money? I will pay it.
11:51You will pay it?
11:54No. He himself is an enemy of Ishtar.
12:04You are an enemy of Ishtar.
12:07You must pay your blood money first.
12:10Arrest me.
12:13Throwing me into the fire would be upholding our family's tradition.
12:18My grandfather Abraham was thrown into the fire
12:21on the orders of Nimrod.
12:24You haven't been arrested so far because of the governor.
12:27Because you're both his son-in-law and nephew.
12:30So people close to the governor and to the authorities
12:33can insult the gods and not be punished.
12:37Arrest him and throw him into fire just like his grandfather.
12:47Leave me alone. Let go! Let go!
12:51What's going on here?
12:55Let go of him.
12:58And free the accused as well.
13:01Fares must be punished.
13:04When Jacob undertakes to pay his blood money,
13:07you have no right to punish him.
13:25You mustn't release him.
13:33Jacob, you must pay 500 dinars for Fares's blood money.
13:38That is no problem. I will pay it.
13:55May God bless you, my good uncle Laban.
14:00How long must I watch you so you don't make a mistake?
14:25Thank you. Thank you.
14:28What are you doing?
14:31Thank you.
14:34I'll work for you until I've paid all the money back.
14:37I promise. I promise.
14:43I'm sorry.
14:46I'm sorry.
14:49I'm sorry.
14:53You saved his life.
14:56You saved his life.
14:59Come. Let's go.
15:22Let's go.
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