One title screen noted hat the film""s screenwriters used material that was "compiled from many sources and contains material from three novels" (as noted in the "Background" above), and also wrote their script “in accordance with the ancient texts of Philo, Josephus, Eusebius, The Midrash and The Holy Scriptures.Heston) in an ark of bulrushes.The drifting basket was found by the Pharaoh""s daughter Bithiah (Nina Foch), a childless widow.Bithiah thought that her prayers had been answered: ("The answer to my prayers...I prayed for a son").The only other royal personage to witness Bithiah""s rescue of the child was her reacherous servant Memnet (Judith Anderson), who recognized that he swaddling cloth around the child indicated its Hebrew origin: ("It is the Levite cloth of a Hebrew slave").I designed it.I""m very human." Bishop II attempted to coax Ripley to allow the extraction of the queen embryo egg-layer gestating inside of her by having her undergo surgery to extract it and then destroy it ("Can""t allow it to live") - but she didn""t believe him.She counters, explaining how chaos (sexual) would be unleashed upon the orderly world if they were released - besides, birds have always been caged, eaten, shot, and abused throughout human history:Mitch: Doesn""t this make you feel awful.I didn""t mean to be impolite, but it""s so new to me.I just mean, it""s just all so new - and so fascinating!Mr.Lynnton: (scolding) Leslie, you mustn""t talk that way to a Texan.They feel very strongly about their state.Leslie: Oh, he shouldn""t take it so hard.Jordan, you would think somebody had spoiled you terribly.Your wife or something.Bick: I haven""t any wife.I live with my sister.Leslie: Why aren""t you married, Jordan?Mr.Lynnton: Leslie, first you attack a man""s country.And now you ry to pry into his family life.When Leslie""s sister and mother Nancy (Judith Evelyn) arrived at the breakfast table, Leslie was urged to show Bick the stables by her mother, but she admitted that she had just quarreled with Bick, and teased: "We have just quarreled in a polite way about Texas, so there""s no use you trying to pawn me off on him.