3 myths
Myths, legends, and mystical writings about Gad from across Jewish tradition.
3 myths on JewishMythology.com retell how Jewish tradition imagines gad, drawn from the Hebrew Bible, Midrash, Talmud, Kabbalah, and later Jewish literature. Each story below synthesizes primary sources into a single narrative; follow any myth to read it, and from there into the source passages behind it.
When Leah gave her handmaid Zilpah to Jacob and the child was born, she chose a name pointing forward to a prophet not yet born for another thousand years.
Two tribes asked Moses for land east of the Jordan and listed sheepfolds before their children. Moses corrected the order without raising his voice.
The bitter water law applies to idolatry forever, God said. Six cities of refuge let an unintentional killer wait until the High Priest dies and walk free.
