247 myths · Page 5 of 9
Above every nation stands a heavenly prince, and Egypt's angel Uzza sues to drag the freed Israelites back into three more centuries of bondage.
A ruined archangel of accusation stalks the Exodus, striking on the road, backing Pharaoh's magicians, and racing Egypt to the sea.
Egyptian priests whispered into sacred lambs and a demon answered with omens, until Israel was told to bind that lamb and cut its throat.
Two sages traced the dark that pinned Egypt to the blackness God hides behind, a coin-thick scoop of the deep that doubled once it was loosed.
Egypt hid Joseph's coffin in the Nile to hold Israel back. On Exodus night, Moses followed the scent of Joseph's bones and carried him home.
The angel moved from the front of the camp to the rear, set itself between Israel and Pharaoh's chariots, and a different Name rode with it.
Pharaoh asked who God was, then loosed six hundred chariots after Israel. At the sea, the same waters came down on him hard as stone.
A prophet sinks into one whirlpool and lives. An army sinks into two depths and does not. The same sea measures both, and finds the soldiers worse.
Pharaoh laughed that Israel was lost in the wilderness, but the word nevuchim he flung carried a mountain and a weeping he never meant.
The sea raged in front, the army thundered behind, and the desert that should have been empty was full of beasts that would not let Israel pass.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan turns the plague of darkness into a trial of light, where morning fails in Egypt and one cloud divides dark from bright at the sea.
Pharaoh marshals six hundred choice chariots at the sea but Israel's song compresses the whole empire into a single horse thrown into the water.
At the Sea of Reeds, Pharaoh's mouth was forced to confess, his army lost its banners, and the nations heard that Egypt's gods had been judged.
When the angels rose to sing as the Egyptians drowned, God stopped them with a sentence that cut through triumph and made mercy part of the judgment.
Fire makes peace with hail, Gabriel holds back at the sea, and Michael waits for dawn to drown Egypt's sorcerers, because destruction must wait for command.
Pharaoh flung Hebrew boys into the Nile and the sea swallowed six hundred chariots in return. The rabbis heard arithmetic beneath Israel's victory song.
The sea drowned Pharaoh and then paid Israel in gems every morning. Moses dragged them away from the treasure, and behind them all Egypt wailed one word.
At the splitting of the sea Israel looked up and saw the heavenly prince of Egypt cast down before a single chariot sank.
God turns the Red Sea into the slime of forced labor, so Egypt drowns in the very substance it made Israel mix for generations in the brick fields of Pharaoh.
Yitro rejoices not at news of distant wonders but when Israel tells him what the manna tasted like and what sweetness the wilderness well contained.
When Israel's elders climbed Sinai and looked beneath the divine throne, they saw a sapphire. The Targum says it was a brick made from the slave clay of Egypt.
A witch rides a man through the market as a donkey, another strangles a child in the womb, and the sages rule how such women must die.
Not everyone wanted to leave Egypt. The midrash says four-fifths of Israel died during the plague of darkness, hidden so Egypt would not rejoice.
Two men followed Moses with opposition from Egypt to the edge of the grave. They are the first to resist in Exodus and the last to resist in Numbers.
The verse says the frog came up and covered Egypt. The sages fought over what that meant. Rabbi Akiva said one frog filled the entire land.
When Egypt's army drowned at the Red Sea, the angels began their morning hymn. God silenced them. His reason is recorded in the Talmud exactly.
Hours before dawn, with the dough still flat on the boards, Israel did not run. They knocked on Egyptian doors and asked for silver and gold.
Three advisors stood before Pharaoh. One fled, one stayed silent, and Balaam found the loophole that drowned Hebrew babies in the Nile.
A sword sharp beyond compare came down on Moses's neck ten times and could not cut it. Then an angel climbed the scaffold dressed as the executioner.
A three-year-old lifts Pharaoh's crown onto his own head, and an angel hidden among the wise men proposes a coal to decide whether the child lives or dies.
