7 myths
They kept their voices low outside the tents. Nothing happened while the cloud stood there. Then it lifted, and Aaron saw white spreading on his sister's skin.
Miriam noticed her brother had withdrawn from his wife and said so quietly, never to his face. Aaron was healed at once. The cloud did not move for a week.
A green streak crept through the stone of his new house in Canaan, and when he tore out the wall and still said nothing, the plague kept moving.
A metzora walks back from isolation with cedar, hyssop, and birds. One bird dies for the tongue. One flies free if the mouth has changed.
A man lied to the High Priest to hide a deliberate sin, and the false word turned back to strike his own children with leprosy.
A stingy man swore he owned no scythe, no axe, nothing to lend, until a plague tore his walls open and spilled his hidden hoard for all to see.
The sages counted the kings and commoners shut out of eternity, and almost wrote Solomon among them, until fire drove them from the benches.
