9 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
The fields lay fallow and the storehouses thinned, but in Asher's hills the oil still ran in streams, and a nation came to eat.
Twelve princes brought identical offerings on twelve straight days. Asher came eleventh, Naphtali last. The rabbis heard the words honey for me in his name.
Asher was a hundred and twenty-five and still strong when he called his sons in. He told them a man can hurt someone in order to heal him.
Jacob keeps his word to Laban through a second seven years, and Bereshit Rabbah reads his faithfulness as a seed of the World to Come.
Reuben named the plague in his loins before he named the sin. Asher had already told his sons a man cannot keep both roads.
The elders wanted a verdict on a staff that had moved. Serach asked for a sentence Joseph spoke while dying. When she heard it, she named the man.
While sages hunted the missing seventieth soul, Serach of Asher sang Joseph living to Jacob and was carried into Eden alive.
Moses blessed Asher to dip his foot in oil. Generations later a Roman bought one household crop for eighteen thousand zuzim and still left oil on the ground.
Two books lay open on the table. One named Benjamin. One named Gad. Then Elijah stood in the doorway and asked why they were dividing him.
