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Amalek came from the far south and covered sixteen hundred miles in a single night, driven by a grudge that ran back to Esau and Jacob in the womb.
David told God madness was ugly and useless. Years later, in a Philistine court with Goliath's sword on his hip, he prayed to become a fool.
A slave woman at the crossing pointed at the sea and saw God more clearly than Ezekiel ever did in his greatest prophetic vision.
Jasher gave Joseph seventy languages overnight and seventy steps to prove it. The Exodus Pharaoh survived the sea and ruled Nineveh.
Most people think the Red Sea left Egypt behind. A second-century rabbi says Israel carried something through the water Moses had to strip away.
Pharaoh rides into the sea with horses and iron, and God answers every weapon in Pharaoh's own language before the waters close.
Samael rises to count every idol Israel bowed to in Egypt, so God hands him righteous Job as bait and splits the sea behind his back.
As a she-wolf nursed the twins who would wall Rome, Pharaoh tightened the yoke on Israel, and two cities climbed on one dark clock.
Rabbah bar Bar Hannah follows a desert guide into the wilderness and finds the generation of the Exodus lying whole, vast, and still.
