76 myths · Page 3 of 3
King Saul bans ghosts, then hunts one by night at En-dor. Samuel rises in his childhood robe and tells the wolf of Benjamin that morning has ended.
A scarlet cord hung in a window while Jericho's walls still smoked. Rahab's household walked out past soldiers ordered to leave no survivor.
Ten of the men on the floor had sold him to a caravan. The eleventh was his mother's other son. He got as far as ordering dinner before he broke.
Haman had cast his lots and raised a gallows. Esther walked into a throne room without being summoned and pointed at the man beside the king.
The sea still looked like a wall. Judah's princes had stones in their fists. One man from Judah walked until salt sat on his mouth.
Jacob could not make out the boys at his bed. Joseph put a marriage contract in his hands. The old man's fingers followed lines he could not see.
Weeks passed and no deed arrived. When Tarfon demanded his property, Akiva walked him through rooms of children bent over letters and orphans in new cloth.
Three days out hunting his father's lost donkeys, Saul wanted to turn for home. The seer up the hill had been told the day before to expect him.
Grain spilled. The vizier's cup rang on a stone at Benjamin's feet. Judah had sold a brother once. He would not walk home in peace again.
Joseph leaned closer, waiting for a date from his father. Jacob's eyes were clear. The hour of the End sat on his tongue and would not move.
After civil war, Israel cursed any father who gave a daughter to Benjamin. On the fifteenth of Av the vow loosened and a tribe lived.
Judah stepped toward the Egyptian lord with Benjamin's life in his throat, ready to wreck markets or die before he returned to Jacob without the boy.
The cup was in the youngest sack. Their father was waiting in Canaan for Rachel's last son. Judah moved closer to the chair.
Joseph sends Manasseh after the brothers with a planted cup. Benjamin's sack opens last, and the men who sold a brother tear their own clothes.
Judah told Jacob the Egyptian face was locked, then pledged guilt for all days. In the court he offered his body so Rachel's last son could walk free.
Judah left the ridge in charcoal. Benjamin left the lower streets to the Jebusites. David rode between ash and living courtyards and would not keep them split.
