7 myths

He watched the cock on the ridge above the camp. When the comb went white, God was angry, and a curse could land. The comb stayed red.

Haman was already on his knees. Gabriel shoved him onto Esther's couch in the same breath the king came back from the wrecked garden.

Two sisters argued in a field in Haran over a handful of apples. The price they settled on was one night with their husband, and the child was Issachar.

When Benjamin went to Egypt, Joseph pulled him aside and asked what their brothers had told Jacob. The answer revealed a mercy his brothers never knew about.

When God formed Adam and commanded the angels to honor him, Ha-Satan, the Accuser, refused. Formed from fire, he would not bow before dust.

The first murderer walked out of his sentencing in a good mood. His father, who had only eaten fruit, never got out from under his own.

Asher was a hundred and twenty-five and still strong when he called his sons in. He told them a man can hurt someone in order to heal him.