438 myths · Page 15 of 15
Sand stuck to wet ankles and children coughed salt. Behind them the sea had closed over chariot wheels, ahead lay a desert with no bread. Israel sang.
The lions chained at Pharaoh's gate broke loose only to fawn at Moses's feet, and one staff swallowed the sorcerers before a single plague fell.
Seeing a taskmaster beat one of his own kin, Moses looked this way and that, gathering the angels into a court to weigh whether the man deserved to die.
Pharaoh swore he made the Nile and needed nothing, so God set Moses as a god over him and sent him to ambush the king at the river at dawn.
A price on his head, Moses fled Egypt into Midian, where the priest Jethro took him in as a friend and bound him by oath before giving Zipporah.
The formless One came as a warrior at the Sea and turned four faces at the mountain, and each Israelite heard one Word bent to his own strength.
Pharaoh read a star named Evil rising to bleed Israel, but God turned the omen into covenant blood and the sea took the man who dug the pit.
God handed Abraham a secret too heavy to speak, hidden in five doubled letters and one small word, and it traveled his blood down to Egypt.
The ten blows that broke Egypt were never spent. Blood, hail and darkness wait in God's hand to fall on wicked Rome exactly as they fell on Pharaoh.
At the Red Sea God knotted every Egyptian horse to its rider, and in Sheol (the underworld) He let each drowned king be comforted while Pharaoh lay refused.
Pharaoh boasted through Ezekiel's mouth that he made himself, so God handed a runaway shepherd the one glory earthly kings kill to guard.
History is scored by ten great songs. At the split sea, angels and Israel raced to sing first, and one mortal voice set the melody.
God warns Moses that Pharaoh will never listen, so redemption comes by force. Arrows with names, a river of gore, and fire burning inside the hail.
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.
An Egyptian priest wrote that shepherd kings seized Egypt without a battle and later built Jerusalem, and Josephus read him as a witness.
Pharaoh's chariots behind them and a sea that will not open ahead, and God answers Israel's weeping by remembering a knife on Moriah.
Armed angels came down to the Sea and God sent them home. Moses remembered that, and would not take one as escort into Canaan.
