Lilia

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Lilia is a fictitious character in the epic move The Ten Commandments a film made in 1956 by Paramount Pictures and directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The character was played by Debra Paget.

In the film, Lilia is a beautiful Hebrew slave who is taken into the house of Baka, the master builder of Egypt, ostensibly as a love slave. When Baka is killed by Moses, she becomes the property of Dathan, a fellow Hebrew in the pay of the Egyptians. She is in love with Joshua, a stonecutter, who is a leader of the Hebrew rebellion against their bondage.

Lilia refuses to leave the house of the master builder due to her shame when Joshua informs her that God will deliver the last of the ten plagues and slay the first born of everyone who is not in a house with sacrificial blood on the door lintels. Joshua paints blood on Dathan's door anyway, which causes Dathan to be ousted as a conspirator when the Hebrews are released from bondage.

Although the film does not specify it, it is assumed that Lilia becomes Joshua's wife when the Hebrews begin their wanderings in the desert.