15 myths
Each story names the sources it was written from.
Korah's men stopped at the tent. On's wife sat in the doorway with her hair uncovered. Inside, her husband slept and did not hear them.
In year 1569 after creation, Noah's sons each drew a slip from their father's robe before an angel. The world was divided and given away forever.
Earth pulled itself to the gate before heaven could look lazy, and Ben Zoma stared at the gap between waters until the world took him.
A single glowing pearl is Noah's only clock while he climbs a black ark for a year, feeding every beast on its own hour until the work nearly kills him.
The chariots were already dead on the sand. The ground refused the burial until God swore by His right hand they would stay.
Korah counted Kohath's four sons on his fingers in the tent. The youngest brother's child held the staff. His own hands were empty.
After the sea splits, the land and the water fight over Egyptian corpses, each refusing burial until God swears by His right hand.
Korah came at Moses through the family gate. When the ground finally tilted it took his tents, his flocks, and a needle he had lent out.
Abel did not move. Cain stamped dirt over the cloth. Under his heel the ground opened a mouth and drank the bloods.
From the ridge Moses sees the whole land and the final day. He bargains to enter as a commoner or as a corpse. Heaven answers no.
No steps climbed the altar. A long ramp forced small strides, and an earthen altar stayed joined to the ground for God.
Beit Shammai built the throne first. Beit Hillel laid the floor first. Rabbi Shimon said they rose together like pot and lid.
Moses stood on the plains of Moab with death already in his bones. He needed witnesses that would not lie down when he did.
On the third day every plant rose to the lip of the soil and stopped, waiting beneath the ground for the first mouth that would know to ask heaven for rain.
A king buys two servants at one price on one contract, feeds the first from his treasury, and sends the second out to sweat for bread.
