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Og ate at Abraham's table and left no name in the joy. Jobs three friends came to a house of ash, kept their names, and Gehinnom (afterlife of judgment) lost.
Abram quoted two verses about women who may not be sold or enslaved. Sarai answered that she cared neither for Hagar's good nor her harm, three times.
The calf found the udder on the first night. The farmer already knew the eighth morning would take it. His daughter named it anyway.
Dread fell between the split animals when Abraham was seventy. Four hundred and thirty years of exile already had a starting hour.
Three sons and their wives stood on the deck. Not one neighbor from the drowned streets stood beside them. Abraham left Haran with a caravan of converts.
Three unborn guests ate with Abraham. Later blessings cast Israel's seed like angels, while God alone lights dark and clothes the bare.
Abraham ran at three strangers he took for idolaters. Centuries later Gamliel poured wine himself, and the sages flinched at the honor.
God seated the Messiah in garments of light at His right. Abraham stood pale at the left and asked why a grandson had the nearer chair.
Jethro brought offerings and the elders sat to eat. Moses stayed on his feet serving, and the sages raised the bar to heaven.
Two men own a measure of wheat and a measure of barley. However the offer is phrased, the first man walks off with the wheat. Abraham made Lot that offer.
A flute missed a note when Rabbi Eliezer refused the cup. Rabbi Yehoshua drank instead, then set it down. A drop of wine marked the wood like a wound.
Elijah came late to Rabbi Judah's study house. He had been washing Abraham's hands, then Isaac's, then Jacob's, never all three at once.
Four invading kings dig tar pits as traps in the Vale of Siddim. Sodom sinks into clay until an angel hauls the king up for later judgment.
Mikhael and Gavriel asked to pull Abraham out of the furnace. God went Himself, and told them to wait for an errand of their own.
Adam's heel outshone the sun, then he was told he was dust. At the table a man set his cup down while the wine was still sweet.
A newborn waits through one Shabbat, then the covenant knife gathers home-born, bought, and foreign sons under Abraham's tent.
Hebron looked like refuse and tombs. Zoan held Pharaoh's officers. The sages still ranked that dust higher than the capital.
Abimelech's house had been shut because of Sarah. Abraham paid nothing that would finish it. He asked heaven to heal the man who took her.
King Areus of Sparta sent High Priest Onias a letter claiming the Lacedemonians and Jews were brethren from the stock of Abraham.
On the third day Abraham stopped and asked his son what he saw. Isaac named a mountain wrapped in cloud. The servants named only desert.
Rabbi Shmuel juggled myrtle branches at weddings while peers scowled, and at his funeral a branch of fire came down between coffin and crowd.
After the kings fled with Lot, Abram mustered pale disciples for a night war, then stood empty and afraid until God named himself a shield.
At ninety-nine he hit the dust while God named a son. The laugh stayed in his ribs. By night the tent smelled of blood and crushed herbs.
The soldier laughed when the outer course gave way. Jeremiah heard a roar above the dust. Heaven had spoken worlds, then labored over this house.
Goats shoved goats on the ridge while the shepherds shouted. Lot looked down at the Jordan plain, wet and shining like a garden, and chose first.
Reuven came back to the pit and found an empty hole and a coat that would lie to Jacob. Years later Moses gave him six words. Live and do not die.
The flocks nosed empty troughs in Canaan. Abraham packed for Egypt, and Sarah walked beside him with a face that would catch a king's eye.
Cain hunts Abel, a generation hunts Noah, Nimrod hunts Abraham. In each chase God turns toward the one being driven, never toward the driver.
Abraham's belly burned for days the way a fuller strips grit from cloth. Then Heaven walked him through a banquet while the meat still steamed.
Eliezer asked for a girl who would offer water. Rebekah came, scolded the others, and the well rose to her jar while Laban's house readied poison.
