8 myths
Esau's crimes cut five years from Abraham's life so the patriarch would not see his shame, and the color red clung from cradle stew to Edom's reckoning.
Eliphaz asked his son who would own this world and the next, then let it drop when the boy ignored him. The boy's name was Amalek.
Miriam led the women with timbrels after the sea closed. Then she spoke against Moses and spent seven days shut outside the camp with a skin disease.
A householder who leaves a roof unfenced or a pit open places blood in his house, and the Torah charges him to prevent the fall.
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi found two marble pillars wrapped against the cold in Rome, and a living man a few steps away under reed mats.
To end a three-year famine David hangs seven of Saul's sons, and Rizpah guards their bodies on a rock through summer until the rain returns.
Alexander offered gold for a statue of himself between the sanctuary and the Holy of Holies. The High Priest offered him a generation of children instead.
He arrived expecting the fire of Gehinnom (afterlife of judgment) and was ordered back into a body instead, stripped to his Nefesh, the rest of him left.
