185 myths · Page 7 of 7
A green streak crept through the stone of his new house in Canaan, and when he tore out the wall and still said nothing, the plague kept moving.
They toasted the shortness of life, named strength their only law, and staked a wager on whether God would come for the one man they broke.
Every sin snaps the string tying a man to God, and the wicked read the silence as proof. Gabriel comes down in the Days of Awe to knot it.
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi found two marble pillars wrapped against the cold in Rome, and a living man a few steps away under reed mats.
They sat with the death penalties written out and picked the heaviest one on purpose, and then the injured party asked to be charged first.
