486 myths · Page 17 of 17

Hauled from a dungeon at dawn, Joseph rides Pharaoh's second chariot while heralds shout his praise, and a strange new name spells out his whole life.

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.

Levi's coffin closed, the elders warned that Israel had grown mightier than Egypt, and a king a cubit tall took the brick tally in hand.

Shishak never broke the walls. He came to Jerusalem with scribes and a claim on paper. His widowed daughter was owed her marriage money from Solomon.

An Egyptian priest wrote that shepherd kings seized Egypt without a battle and later built Jerusalem, and Josephus read him as a witness.