438 myths · Page 14 of 15
Leprous Pharaoh asked how to heal. Balaam said bathe in Israelite blood. Job disapproved, said nothing, and heaven marked the silence for a year of pain.
At the sea Pharaoh loosed arrows at Israel. God rode a cherub through fire, answered shot for shot, and waved the angels back so the war stayed His alone.
When Moses left the palace, Pharaoh swore to hang him. When Moses walked back in, the king of Egypt went stiff as a staff.
Pharaoh thinks the three-day feast is a short leave. Officers return bloody. Moses orders the camp back to Pi-hahiroth between rocks shaped like bodies.
Joseph sits in a prison house and God sits with him. Above, a sapphire brick under the Throne keeps Israel's bondage in view until redemption brightens.
After plague after plague, Pharaoh offered half freedom and kept the herds. Moses demanded the livestock and the kings own beasts. The court door slammed…
At the sea an Egyptian rebukes his horse for rushing into the water. The horse answers that it sees the heights of the universe in the deep.
A single divine utterance splits in two. Moses hears return to Egypt. Aaron hears go meet him. Other prophets get only night and dream.
God uprooted Sinai, inverted it over Israel, and offered Torah under a sky that could bury them. They answered we will do and we will hear.
At the sea the pillar of cloud turns the ground to sticky mire, the pillar of fire boils it, and Egypt's horses melt their hooves where they stand.
Famine drives Abraham into Egypt with Sarah. Each step he takes becomes a mold, and generations later Israel walks the same road into exile and out.
Dying in Egypt, Joseph makes his brothers swear the bones and the nation wait for one phrase. Moses later carries the password into Pharaoh's court.
God walks Egypt house by house on the night of the firstborn. Prisoners who cheered Israel's pain die too, while rebel Israel still leaves free.
Called twice at the bush, Moses later refuses an anonymous escort after the calf. He bargains for names until heaven confirms his goodly name and grants the…
After the calf, Moses climbs into wrath with a people already hunted at the birthstool, and will not leave until the Name honors its own forever oath.
Moses begged to enter the land. God told him the desert dead needed their captain for the resurrection, so Kadesh became the public reason he stayed outside.
Angels leaned over the Nile and shouted that the baby scheduled to sing at the sea was about to drown in it. God refused to hurry. The basket did not tip.
Without the elders' early trust, Israel would not have followed Moses. God rewarded them with the honor of leading the people to the Passover sacrifice.
The last Israelite left the path. The first Egyptian stepped in. Heaven closed every window and the arrows found the hawks.
Trapped between walls of water, Egyptian soldiers argued whether the storm was weather or war. The sober named God too late to leave the seabed.
He had talked heaven out of destroying Israel twice. On the riverbank he used the softest word in the language, and the answer was still no.
As Edom, Moab, and Canaan massed to strike the leaving slaves, God encircled the camp like a shepherd before any spear could land.
Pharaoh marked the hours between each blow to Egypt, waiting the plagues out, until hail smashed his flax and left the late wheat standing green.
After the sea fell, Israel saw Egyptian corpses on the water and tried to turn back home, until Moses raised his staff and forced the march toward the mountain.
Young Moses wins a weekly rest for the brickmakers. Years later the Israelite foremen absorb Pharaoh's lashes and meet him with curses at the gate.
Moses built the Mishkan beam by beam as the Lord commanded, then stood outside while the Name filled the house. Heaven refused to leave him at the door.
Moses carried the promise into brick-dust streets. A woman turned a small clay figure in her palm until it warmed. A man kept his eyes on the floor.
Trapped between Pharaoh and the water, Israel asked what they could do. Moses told them to be silent and exalt while the sea turned hunter.
Rabbi Nehorai swore almost none left Egypt. Under three days of black, survivors buried the unwilling, then stepped into a desert whose shadow could kill.
At a roadside inn, Zipporah cut her son with a stone and dropped the flesh at an angel's feet so Moses could live to reach Egypt.
