10 myths
The men of Dan looked at his face and at his father. They closed the gap between their banners and left him holding canvas.
A voice at the ramp asks who set God's table before Israel existed. The answer is a man of bread who spent a hundred and twenty days where nothing eats.
Understanding knew the truth already and still refused to rule, so Satan was sworn in as plaintiff and the eyes of God entered as witnesses.
A rumor named the queen and an officer. The king searched the rooms and found nothing. He sat her at the head of the table anyway.
Gold apples, gold pomegranates, gold loaves. Alexander asked if they ate metal here. The king fed him a verdict that left two honest men alive.
The onlookers told each other she had come to have the boy killed. She heard them. Then she stood up and told the judge he had kicked her.
A king forgave a province's taxes in stages as crowds met him on the road, mapping Rosh Hashanah to Yom Kippur so Sukkot could open as a true first day.
A bandit returned a rug to buy a defender and met that defender as his accuser. So a stolen lulav (palm branch) testifies on Sukkot.
Disciples slept near the threshold and woke to the scrape of the king's feet. No herald, no procession. They lit lamps and read until the morning star.
Ruth gleaned only two stalks at a time even when starving. Boaz watched her restrain herself and understood that he was looking at something extraordinary.
