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.
Tribes quarrel on the shore while Egypt thunders behind. Benjamin leaps. Nahshon walks until water climbs his neck and heaven splits the road.
Jacob could not make out the boys at his bedside. Joseph put a marriage contract in his hands, and his father's fingers went along lines he could not read.
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.
The steward cut the cords on the youngest sack and silver rolled into the dust. Judah had agreed to a bargain like this once, and he would not do it twice.
On his deathbed Jacob opened his mouth to tell his sons when redemption would come. Heaven closed the words before they left his tongue.
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.
Judah had pledged Benjamin to Jacob with his own life as bond. In Egypt he stepped toward the throne, throat tight, and spent the vow before a stranger.
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 burned the upper city and left it ash. Benjamin would not touch the lower. David took both and locked them inside one wall.
