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Judah's last words listed the lion he killed barehanded and the bear he flung off a cliff. Levi told his sons to teach their children to read the Torah.
Edom crowns Hadad, Africa wars over a stolen bride, and Chittim hoists infants on its walls, all while Israel groans unseen in Egypt's brickyards.
Ganoon claimed private revelation and led Ephraim out of Egypt too soon. Two hundred thousand fell. Bows turned back in battle.
Advisors dragged Pharaoh from his throne for three months until he agreed to forget Joseph. Then Egypt closed its fist.
Abraham feared dying into an idol-maker's house. Heaven told him Terah had turned, and a doubled name sealed the old man for both worlds.
A price on his head, Moses fled Egypt into Midian, where the priest Jethro took him in as a friend and bound him by oath before giving Zipporah.
Levi's coffin closed, the elders warned that Israel had grown mightier than Egypt, and a king a cubit tall took the brick tally in hand.
Fiery serpents tore through the camp, so Moses raised a bronze serpent on a pole and told the bitten to lift their eyes and live.
Two bowls were set before the three-year-old: gold and jewels in one, burning coals in the other. He put a coal to his lips and burned his tongue.
Birds banked away from the peak. The mountain leaned toward Moses like a man at a door, and the bush blossomed while it burned.
A six-year-old girl told her father his decree was worse than Pharaoh's. Then Miriam prophesied the child who would save Israel.
Moses once introduced himself as Yithro's son-in-law. After the Exodus, Yithro introduced himself as Moses' father-in-law. The Mekhilta noticed.
Three advisors stood before Pharaoh. One fled, one stayed silent, and Balaam found the loophole that drowned Hebrew babies in the Nile.
Jethro had served every idol in Midian. He watched Moses judge alone from dawn to dark, then said four quiet words that saved a nation.
Jethro the Midianite lays burnt offerings on the fire while Aaron and the elders come to eat bread, and Moses stands and serves them all.
A sword sharp beyond compare came down on Moses's neck ten times and could not cut it. Then an angel climbed the scaffold dressed as the executioner.
A three-year-old lifts Pharaoh's crown onto his own head, and an angel hidden among the wise men proposes a coal to decide whether the child lives or dies.
A girl plants her feet on the riverbank and watches her brother's basket drift, while her father's question still rings: where is your prophecy now?
Pharaoh broke the men with labor, but the women carried fish, oil, warmth, and courage into the fields until Israel lived.
Pharaoh's daughter came to the Nile that morning to wash away her father's idolatry. She walked away with a Hebrew infant and a new name from God.
Pharaoh saw all Egypt weighed against a tender kid, and the kid sank the scale. Balaam turned the dream into a decree against Israel.
Moses did not speak like every other prophet. A basket, a palace, and a burning bush trained him for the clear bright lens.
Israel did not believe because Aaron made signs in Egypt. They believed when his mouth carried the phrase Joseph had buried in memory.
At a night lodging on the road to Egypt, God came for Moses. Zipporah grabbed a flint knife and did what needed doing before anyone else understood the danger.
Jethro had already paid for leaving his own gods before he arrived in the wilderness, and what he saw when he watched Moses judge all day frightened him.
A crying child in a basket on the Nile became the redeemer of Israel. The rabbis followed the water from Pharaoh's river to Miriam's well to the desert clouds.
Three men were asked how to deal with the Hebrews. One gave the murderous answer, one shrugged, and one argued and left Egypt that day with a stolen staff.
The voice that called him out of the fire was his father's voice, and Amram had been dead for years. Moses answered it before he knew who was speaking.
Exodus names a nameless angel in the flame. The Targum Pseudo-Jonathan gave him a name, Zagnugael, and split the Burning Bush into two voices.
While Reuel kept Moses imprisoned in a pit, Zipporah secretly brought him food for ten years before pulling him out into his destiny.
Pharaoh broke out in sores, and his doctors told him to bathe in the blood of Hebrew children. He signed the order for three hundred a day.
The elders set out with Moses for Pharaoh's court. One by one they found reasons to slow down, and only Moses and Aaron reached the door.
Joseph's deathbed password reaches Moses, Levi lives long enough to see the deliverer born, and Jethro hears of the mountain of glory before Moses arrives.
Six months in the womb, then three months hidden in the house. By the time Egypt came looking for a newborn boy, the child was already a season old.
Moses ran out of Egypt with a dead taskmaster behind him and stopped at a well in Midian. Shepherds were driving women off it. He drew the water himself.
Shifra and Puah refuse Pharaoh at the birth room; Moses resists God for seven days at the burning bush; and children at the sea recognize God first.
God calls Moses through his father's voice at the burning bush so the first prophet will not be shattered. Moses hides his face. Awe arrives before the mission.
Pharaoh studies the covenant with Noah and thinks he has found a gap in God's promise. He drowns the Hebrew boys. The Nile remembers the debt at the Red Sea.
Moses sees fire in a thornbush that does not consume the branches. Shemot Rabbah hears God choosing to stand inside Israel's suffering before speaking.
Moses told the people to stand firm and watch. God was telling Moses something else: stop crying out to Me and get them moving toward the water.
Aaron had been prophesying in Egypt for eighty years when his younger brother was chosen. He felt no envy, and so he wore the breastplate over his heart.
Pharaoh drowned the boys, so Israel's men divorced their wives to end the line. A little girl talked her father out of it, and Moses was born.
The court told Pharaoh to move against the Hebrews. He refused, said Egypt owed them everything, and lost his throne for three months.
Pharaoh's daughter reaches for the ark in the reeds, her maidens block her in the name of the decree, and Gabriel strikes them down.
Pharaoh turned the Nile into a grave for Hebrew sons, but the river spat the infants back onto the sand, where God fed them milk and oil from the rock.
Moses hid the body in the sand. The next day two Hebrews were quarreling, and one of them asked whether he meant to kill them too.
God abandoned the high slopes and settled in a shrub of thorns because Israel was in grief. Moses asked for an oath before he would go down.
When Hebrew men divorced their wives to spare unborn sons from the Nile, Amram remarried Jochebed in public so despair would not erase Israel.
