478 myths · Page 16 of 16
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.
Reading Genesis, royal brothers turn to the wall and weep, then each is circumcised in secret while their mother invents a mole for the king.
On the second day the lower waters are driven down from the Throne. They weep as they fall, and later Abraham bargains while that same voice still offers…
Ha-Satan (the Accuser) knelt before Nimrod in black silk and urged war on the child Abraham until Gabriel threw dark clouds between the boy and the host.
Abraham would not crown Isaac with a private blessing that might split the house. Michael came for his soul. God finished what flesh refused.
Isaac feared he had blessed the wrong son. Then Esau stood in the doorway wailing that Jacob had once bought his birthright with a bowl of lentils.
Abram carried trays of his mother's cooking to his father's statues and waited. No hand reached. The next day he took a hatchet off the shop floor.
Nimrod woke from a dream that named Abraham as the end of his kingdom. Eliezer raced to warn him, and Abraham hid a month under Noah's roof.
Ishmael was circumcised at thirteen, awake and willing. He never let his half-brother forget that Isaac had been cut at eight days old, asleep in a cradle.
At Gerar the king told Abraham to settle anywhere he liked. Abraham heard the mockery in the offer and did not stay. At night his own body taught him Torah.
Four men were handed the same rod. Abraham was played with until God said enough. Hezekiah pressed his face to the wall and got fifteen years.
Abraham spent three years in Kuthi and seven in Budri. Then they dragged him from prison and threw him into the furnace of the Chaldees.
Jebusites cast Abraham's covenant onto copper and set it in the street. David could not enter until sacred words stopped being walls.
Near death under desert thorns, Ishmael cried to Abraham's God. Years later Abraham left a coded message at the tent door, and the son understood.
Before the marriage scribe, an orphan freezes when asked her father's name, then points to the guardian who raised her, not the man who only begot her.
Abraham holds firm in Nimrod's furnace and names himself a wall. Generations later Rebecca keeps clean among the swindlers of Padan Aram.
Sarah said the Lord had shut her up. Shut, not sealed over. Then she walked across the tent and put her Egyptian handmaid into her husband's hands.
Sarah came into the tent hot. Abraham had the mother of his child under his roof and would not call her anything but his wife's handmaid.
Under the tree Abraham served three guests whose food vanished course by course, then Ammon locked the desert against travelers who already had manna.
A tyrant of Hebron demands a ransom in coins all struck the same year, a debt built to be unpayable, until Abraham stirs in his grave to answer it.
Sarah demanded Hagar be severed from her line in this world and the next. When Sarah died, Abraham reached back for the woman he had exiled.
God handed Abraham a secret too heavy to speak, hidden in five doubled letters and one small word, and it traveled his blood down to Egypt.
A king fells his cedars but keeps the thorns that hedge his vineyard, while Daniel eats only pulse ten days to refuse the king's table.
Cain was the first man to raise a blade, and God ruled the sword would return on whoever drew it. Ages later, four kings made war and learned it.
Every one of the thirty-one kings Joshua killed had once reclined at Abraham's weaning feast, their names later written in a column read in one breath
Abraham hands his father the idol money, then tells him which of his gods went to ash in the cooking fire and seasoned the midday meal.
Pharaoh's chariots behind them and a sea that will not open ahead, and God answers Israel's weeping by remembering a knife on Moriah.
She danced before the Throne on the sixth day and was betrothed to the soul of Moses. Centuries later she stood in sackcloth while men picked at her.
