The film begins with the Creation. God (voiced by John Huston) creates everything that exists, including the first man, Adam (Michael Parks) and the first woman, Eve (Ulla Bergryd). Both live in the utopical Garden of Eden until a Serpent convinces Eve to disobey God by eating a fruit from the tree of knowledge, and in turn Eve convinces Adam to do the same. God punishes all three of them harshly and banishes Adam and Eve from the Garden.
They have two children : Cain and Abel. When they are older, both make regular ritual sacrifices to God. God favours the sacrifice made by Abel (Franco Nero), so Cain (Richard Harris) grows jealous and murders Abel and runs away. Adam and Eve mourn the loss of both their sons. Generations come to pass, and most of the descendants of Cain grow evil.
God is displeased by his creation and intends to destroy it all via a global flood. He makes contact with a good man named Noah (John Huston) and commands him to build an Ark in order to save himself from the flood, as well as his family and a pair of each animal of the world. Noah obeys and, after the ark is ready, everything in the world is covered by water and every living thing outside the ark dies. The occupants of the ark survive the catastrophe. Noah's wife is the only one able to count the days inside. After a while, they find dry land again and God promises to never again destroy his creation by water. This promise is symbolized by a rainbow.
The second part begins with a visual representation of Noah's descendants and a brief depiction of the story of the Tower of Babel, in which the king Nimrod (Stephen Boyd) defies God by ordering the construction of a colossal tower and firing an arrow from the top of it towards the sky. God responds by making people speak different languages from then on, making them disperse across the Earth.
The remainder of the film tells the story of the patriarch Abraham (George C. Scott), who always wanted a child who would inherit his position, but his wife Sarah (Ava Gardner) is barren. Sarah offers her handmaiden Hagar (Zoe Sallis) to bear Abraham's children instead. Hagar becomes pregnant with Ishmael, but God promises that Abraham will have another child with Sarah despite all, and that this child will be called Isaac and will inherit Abraham's position instead of Ishmael. Hagar and Sarah begin to grow resentful of each other.
The men of Abraham start quarreling with those of his nephew Lot (Gabriele Ferzetti), and so they agree to part ways. Lot decides to try and live with his family in the city of Sodom, but it is full of sinners. Abraham receives the visit of three angels (all played by Peter O'Toole), who announces God's plan to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah by fire. Abraham intercedes for the sodomites. Two of the angels go visit Lot, but ultimately decide to go ahead with the destruction of the cities, only saving Lot's family if they flee the city without looking back. Lot's wife looks back and she is turned into a pillar of salt.
Time goes by and, at long last, the elderly Sarah gives birth to Isaac as God predicted. Fearing that Ishmael might kill Isaac as Cain did Abel, she sends him along with his mother out into the desert. Hagar and her son almost die, but God ultimately calls to her while a water fountain springs miraculously from the sand, promising that a great lineage of men will come from Ishmael.
God then instructs Abraham to kill Isaac as a sacrifice. Abraham is devastated, but obeys and takes off towards the mountain Moriah, alone with Issac, in order to make the sacrifice there without telling his true intentions to him or his mother. In Moriah, as he prepares to sacrifice his son, God stops Abraham's hand in the last moment, telling him that all of that was a test to see if Abraham would still obey God no matter what. Abraham and Isaac merrily sacrifice a ram that was stuck in some nearby bushes.
The Bible : In the Beginning...
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