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The inn doorway filled until the lamp flame bent. Moses hit the boards. Zipporah already had a river stone cold in her hand.

Summoned before Rome's ruler and governor, Rabbi Akiva flings a fortune in medicine to the pigs and shows why God left the world unfinished.

Pharaoh read a star named Evil rising to bleed Israel, but God turned the omen into covenant blood and the sea took the man who dug the pit.

Abraham fell on his face when God gave him a password no one else knew. Serah bat Asher, a girl in Egypt, would be the last to hold it.

Joshua marched the whole nation into the hand's breadth between the Ark's two poles, and the small space held the many while the Jordan stood still.