485 myths · Page 17 of 17
When Joseph was born the Holy Spirit fell on Jacob and showed him a flame to burn Esau, and that same fire drove his frightened house down to Egypt.
God orders every Israelite household to bind Egypt's holy lamb at the doorpost and slaughter it the night the empire's firstborn die.
The old king died and the elders walked into the hall. Israel had grown too many, they said. The next Pharaoh stood a cubit and a span tall.
He did not bring engines against the walls. He brought scribes and a paper. Solomon was dead, and a widow in Egypt was owed her marriage money.
An Egyptian priest wrote that shepherd kings seized Egypt without a battle and later built Jerusalem, and Josephus read him as a witness.
