15 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
David asked if Saul would keep hunting him. The high priest looked down. Three letters on the stones caught fire and spelled the chase.
Moses blessed Dan as a lion leaping from the Bashan. The Sifrei Devarim reveals this was a prophecy: the tribe would divide and claim two separate territories.
Dan's stone showed an inverted face. Naphtali's held a running deer. Gad's blazed with justice. Each stone said something its tribe could not hide.
Amalek came from the far south and covered sixteen hundred miles in a single night, driven by a grudge that ran back to Esau and Jacob in the womb.
When Jacob blessed Dan and compared him to Judah, the tribal princes went silent. Dan led the rearguard, gathered the lost, and produced Samson.
On his deathbed, Dan told his children where the spirit that nearly made him a murderer had come from. It was older than any of them knew.
Reuben had three crowns waiting on the bed. Jacob poured them out like water from a flask. The firstborn left with his ears ringing.
The men of Dan looked at his face and at his father. They closed the gap between their banners and left him holding canvas.
The camp said Moses had given the Sanctuary to his own blood. He opened the words from the mountain and showed them Bezalel's name already written.
Jacob would not pray for his wife. The sister with every reason to gloat asked heaven to turn her own unborn son into a daughter instead.
Leah had four sons. Rachel had none. She told Jacob to give her children or she would die, and his anger flared at being asked to do God's work.
The spirit seized him between two mountains. He tore them loose and ground them together. A bell went ahead of him through the camp of Dan.
A son of the Egyptian Moses killed tried to pitch with Dan and lost. From that loss he hurled the Name heard at Sinai, and the camp answered with stones.
A potter set down a wet jar and forgot the rim. Dust rose in two towns at once. Between them a Nazirite's hair began to ring.
Samson found a fresh jawbone from a donkey only three days old and dropped a thousand Philistines, then nearly died of thirst before a hollow cracked open.
